I guess I should’ve tweeted this before the eclipse, but … I forgot. So, better late than never: I wrote a little essay about the mind-bending awe of witnessing totality.

joanniesen.substack.com/p/a-blotted-ou…

Come for the headline, stay for the waiter who’s out there in Cleveland talking about eclipse cults to anyone who will listen.

For one week each month, the food newsletter becomes a books newsletter, and that week is now. Here's everything I read in March: three mysteries, two essay collections and a food-adjacent novel.

joanniesen.substack.com/p/march-books

For one week each month, the food newsletter becomes a books newsletter, and that week is now. Here's everything I read in March: three mysteries, two essay collections and a food-adjacent novel.

joanniesen.substack.com/p/march-books

A friend and I once tried to calculate how many hot dogs we'd eaten over the course of our lives. We're both enthusiastic carnivores AND attendees of sporting events, and neither of us got close to the estimates Big Hot Dog computes.

This is my favorite thing I've read all year.

Quits job, becomes husband's hype woman

Jesse wrote a good story! Read it!

Wrote a little something something about why I quit my job and following your dreams, etc., etc.

joanniesen.substack.com/p/quit-my-job

Can’t believe the NCAA got in the way of Jesse’s first-ever attempted use of a tape measure

My husband, the sleuth 🧐

Wrote a little something something about why I quit my job and following your dreams, etc., etc.

joanniesen.substack.com/p/quit-my-job

I have watched zero minutes of college basketball this season, I put 12 seconds of thought into my bracket, and I guarantee I'm going to win.

It is Pi Day, and so here I am, delivering pie.

joanniesen.substack.com/p/lime-coconut…

Wrote about DePaul and making something of playing out the string: washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/03…

It is Pi Day, and so here I am, delivering pie.

joanniesen.substack.com/p/lime-coconut…