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The Best Potato Salad Ever
Summer has arrived (unless you’re in England, in which case you are still waiting patiently), and you don’t want to cook stuff. A salad it is, then! I have to disappoint you here, because this salad...
View ArticleSummer in Your Own Backyard
Ah… it’s June, the weather is warm and the living is easy. It’s Friday afternoon, and the dreams of the weekend loom large… except when they don’t. What happens when your summer wallet doesn’t match...
View ArticleLunchtime Poll: What’s Your Offering?
The Goddess of Cool Breezes and Plenty of Shade awaits your offering. It is 19ºC here. My attempts to send a complaint to Mother Nature about this outrageous heat have so far been unsuccessful. It is...
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News in Europe: No News Here
Unicorns and friends, I have just spent the most blissful week of no news in Eastern Poland. We went potato harvesting and looked at some week-old baby cows. That was literally it, and it was grand. I...
View ArticleThis Weekend Open Thread is Chillaxing
Summer is almost over. Let’s relax a bit before we can’t anymore. I’ve got about a week and a half before classes start. Yikes. It feels like I just started my break. I mean, to be fair, since I took...
View ArticleSummertime Blues
Labor Day has traditionally marked the start of the fall season, when we say goodbye to “those lazy hazy crazy days of summer,” return to school (or work), and put away our white shoes until Memorial...
View ArticleTen Songs Keeping Me Sane This Week: Early Heatwave Edition
Summer came to Seattle like a power bomb. It topped 85 a few days ago. This makes Alyson melt. I apparently was not ready for summer, though my listening tastes have prepared me for the incoming...
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Poll: What are Your Favorite Summer Drinks?
Friends, it is hella warm here in the Northern Hemisphere, and I want to have a refreshing boozy drink. What are your favorites? Non-boozy suggestions welcome also, should that be the way you roll....
View ArticleLunchtime Poll: Favorite Summer Activities
How do you like to spend your summer weekends? Are you all about the outdoor activities like swimming, fairs, and getting close to nature? Or are you more likely to be huddling near an air conditioner...
View ArticleThis Weekend Open Thread is Too Sweaty to Exist
I think the humidity in NYC is 400% this week. I’d say the air conditioner in my bedroom is inadequate, but I’m not convinced an adequate AC unit actually exists on this planet. Save me.
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