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Victor Steven started walking a few weeks ago. As a first-time parent, it was such a proud, thrilling moment to see him take his first steps. In the beginning, he was tentative. He’d hold on to furniture as he learned to balance. He’d take a few steps, then fall to the ground. Every day he’d walk a few more steps: two steps, then four, then eight. Now he’s cruising around the house like a pro:

PamPam, Felt, and Proxi are new tools that make it easier to create, share, and publish attractive online maps. You can use them to visualize itineraries, map out your favorite restaurants, or for data journalism projects. Whipping up maps has gotten faster, more visual and more fun. Read on for examples and ideas for how to make the most of these services. Share PamPam gives you a fun, free way to create and share maps to share with friends.

You have created such a beautiful space to call home!! Aw that means the world to me. I still feel like I'm only touching the surface of being "active" on here, but the community aspect is SO magical on Substack, isn't it? I'm so honored to be connected with you, too! Thank you!! We're starting to have cool mornings which feel AMAZING! I'll take what I can get 😂

For anyone new here, I’m a writer of poetry, downbeat diaries, branding and advertising projects, articles for Creative Review and The Guardian, and books about design. Thoughts on Writing uses language as a way into wider cultural and political issues. This post may be a challenge for readers blissfully uninterested in advertising awards. But it also goes into deeper issues about the ethics of business and advertising, and may offer some clues if you’ve ever found yourself wondering why advertising is so weird these days.

Despite having been there a couple of times on quick visits as a typical tourist, one of them when I was 18 or 19, I never really had a good understanding of what Venice, Italy really was and represented. This is a city built on water, that I knew, but I had the impression that those canals were as lifeless beneath them as the canals of The Venetian Hot… ncG1vNJzZmimlazEsL7LnZyrZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8KrnJqspaeytHnOn2StoJViw6a6xK2gmqZdoa6ou86n

So funny! 😂😂😂 I loved reading this! 🙆🏻‍♀️ Keanu - definitely a good kind humble star. You are LUCKY BLESSED etc, that you don’t have any online dating experience (at least I don’t think you do)….oh my jeez!!!! I cannot even repeat some of the creepy messages I have seen from supposedly very high profile men. And the photos? Ugh.😩 Some men have their grandmas rolling in their graves. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I wrote a book! It is called Crisis Averted, and it will be published by Viking in October. It’s been three years in the making, and I am so excited to share it with the world. I wanted to write a book to show you all the inside story of public health, to see the field as I see it—as a mostly invisible source of tremendous progress and change. I want rea…

There are two things that have been a constant in my life, and both are so inextricably linked that I can’t bear to tear them apart: food and language. I say language rather than words, because although words are what I deal in everyday, it’s language that we’re really talking about. And isn’t food a language in and of itself? When you go to another country where you are the outsider, do you not communicate through food?

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