Just this afternoon my cousin drank a “bone broth hot chocolate” right in front me. I’m happy that she’s happy?

Strong social safety net, no impediment to wealth accumulation, I think. Unfortunately, we can’t really fund the first without the second!

So dapper! With an alphabet tie!

I think we’re definitely helped along by greater access to better ingredients, recipes, and options. I’m always amazed when I hear my parents talk about foods that were “new” to their area when they were young—bagels, varied ice cream flavors, the very first Chinese place in town

But she got used to it, and now family vacations are more chill!

My family has a strong “holidays mean all family, all the time” and my sister and I started making an active effort to break away and periodically do our own thing.
It was kind of funny at first watching my mom, who tends to play cruise director, get agitated but not really able to justify why

Found!

Rough Crossings, by Simon Schama. Really incredible story of enslaved people who escaped during the revolutionary war, were freed by the British, and wound up in Canada, Britain, and most interestingly, what became modern Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Ooh, thank you!

Indie sci-fi/fantasy novella?

I did smashed Brussels sprouts recently and it was great. Boil them a bit, smush them, and get them browned and crispy in the oven with glaze or dip of choice

Incredible!

Okay, I’ve read Bad Blood but somehow missed the Enron one, putting in a Libby reservation now! 🫡

Pls share what this email wanted from you, I’m so curious

I think this is it:

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I mean, we’ve got Thomas Jefferson on the record

Same and I’m accepting recommendations at this time if anyone has any!

He’s bisexual, actually! Go forth, or don’t, but don’t let heterosexuality hold you back

Or a combo? You can be white, buff, and a sensitive soul, but black and buff equals tough, emotionless, action guy.
Also, some of his best work is in genre stuff, so there’s the usual bias against that