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Gina Kaufmann
@ginak.bsky.social
Journalist-reader-writer-watcher-worrier-joker

Editor @theworld.org

Formerly: Real Humans, Central Standard & Midwesternish @KCUR + freelance for Nieman Reports, PRX, Mass Humanities, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, Boston Globe, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
Autumn playground, New England: a timeline freshener
October 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Enjoying this so much as my own kid gets ready to start a new grade and I fall into the predictable cliche of wanting time to slow down.
September 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Hey Kansas City, YJ’s has a long lost twin in Montreal. It’s called Chez Jose. Not pictured: the flier-plastered bathroom.
August 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I know this is not how people use this site but figure it’s worth asking even if I get just one helpful answer:

What is something good to make using the leaves of lemongrass? Most recipes call for stalks but the leaves are abundant and fragrant!

Photo for attention
August 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Summer. Weekend. Good book. Pond life.
August 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Oh hello
July 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Nature exists.

Also, Vermont lives up to its reputation for being pretty.
June 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A visitor at my garden plot! I’m so happy.
June 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Art exists
June 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Art exists
June 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hands down the best restaurant I’ve been to in Boston (technically Watertown)
June 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The story of Yoko meeting John. She was installing an exhibit and he came in to look around a day early. Love that it was the word yes in tiny handwriting that got his attention. ❤️
May 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Not exactly light holiday weekend reading but a fascinating book about someone whose name I’ve known pretty much my whole life but whose story I have not
May 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
May 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
These smell so good!
May 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
April 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
New Mexico is gorgeous. I would like to be a turtle basking in the sun.
April 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Rainbow
April 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
It’s only 42 degrees out, but still…
April 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Sigmar Polke 1972
April 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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March 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In honor of @kcfrank.bsky.social I’m officially calling it: Spring Watch 2025.

Exhibit A: buds on branches.

Dreary gray sky, acknowledged. But still. I see buds!!!!
March 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM