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What’s a publication like Bitter Southerner but for the Midwest?

ICYMI: A new installment of Maggie Downs's 'Been There, Smelled That' about a professional ham sniffer in Spain and the important difference between saying 'jabón' and 'jamón' in Spanish.
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One of the tried and true recipes for revolution is giving people enough education to sharpen their critical faculties but no opportunities for social mobility and then repressing them. Just something to think on. Happy May Day.

My son is up past his bedtime, devouring the last few chapters of Bridge to Terabithia … and I know this won’t end well. That book destroyed me

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If you know me, you know how long I’ve wanted to write about professional ham sniffers. Finally that day has come

I don’t know why, but the closed captioning on Girls5Eva is telling me to go fuck myself

Also I didn’t have the closed captioning on 😂💀

My garden is growing, the seedlings look strong, and I’m finally on my way to being a self-reliant homesteader who only eats kohlrabi

“Hike up your skirt a little more and show your world to me” and it’s not close

Deja vu

'If you’ve ever thought snow doesn’t smell the same now as when you were a kid, you’re right.'

A new installment of Maggie Downs's column 'Been There, Smelled That.'
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If you think snow smells different than it used to, you’re right! Climate change has shifted our smellscape, affecting everything from snow to sandalwood.

I wrote about it in my latest Been There, Smelled That column

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So the eclipse is on Rex Manning Day?!

Say no more, mon amour

And if you wanted to find out where the party was that night, or just find people to hang with, you’d just go to the coffee shop and sit there with your Moleskine notebook, sketching or writing, until you saw one of your people

So the eclipse is on Rex Manning Day?!

Say no more, mon amour

I did a very intense meditation, hoping for some kind of deep insight or revelation. And at the end of the practice, my very first thought was: I like animals more than people

Today I remembered the time my friend created her first email address and didn’t realize how often she’d have to type it or give it out to other people

She soon regretted being Johnjacobjingleheimerschmidt @ hotmail

Did a cartoon villain write this