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Like yesterday, I included goldfish crackers in a lunch picture. And I’m like, how long is it going to take before someone yells at me about the goldfish? You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast where we talk about diet culture, fatphobia, parenting, and health. Today I am chatting with fan favorite, and my best friend, Amy Palanjian. Amy is the creator of the blog Yummy Toddler Food, and she’s on Instagram and Tiktok, as we’ll talk about.

Even at age 75, there is still beef to sell, a cattle ranch in South Texas to monitor, a bank to help oversee and a Triple A baseball team still feeling the effects of COVID-19 restrictions in 2020 and 2021. Nolan Ryan is not retired. He still heads to the office daily, when he’s in town, and is still involved in the day-to-day operation of all that he and his sons have their hands in.

Ever sinceKelly Reichardt’s Showing Up came out earlier this year, I’ve been thinking a lot about the virtues of proportionality, of filmmakers who have the discipline to tell small stories that are rich in specific detail. “Termite art,” in other words. Showing Up is about a sculptor (Michelle Williams) and art-school instructor getting new pieces together for an exhibition at a small gallery that appears to be off the town’s main drag.

I knew Saint Sebastian, a handsome if dissolute young man. I knew him first from Instagram, where he cultivated a healthy following. We had nothing in common, he ten years younger than me, me working in human rights law and he in PR for the Roman army, and me ten years older than him. But we didn’t need anything in common; I followed him because he prettied up my feed, and he didn’t follow me back.

While researching Pipeline to the Pros, the interviews we conducted and books/articles we read yielded way more interesting quotes and factoids than would fit in a 250ish page book. So our cutting room floor is littered with stories we think you all might enjoy. Some of our favorites revolved around the founding of the Dallas Mavericks and their first president, Grinnell College grad Norm Sonju. The stories are especially relevant toda,y given the fact that the Mavs are currently in the NBA Finals.

There came a time when Savvy mgazine and I reached an amicable parting of the ways. After four-plus years of catering to executive women, after lurching my way up the masthead from copy editor to executive editor, I was burned out. I wanted to try my hand at writing for other magazines (I don’t think I had any desire at that point to get back to fiction). And the magazine was in the process of being sold to Meredith, publisher of the Ladies Home Journal, which like more and more “books” pitched to women had finally caught on that much of the female population was working outside the home.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 115 passengers and 28 crew were sickened on the April 5th Princess Cruises' Sapphire Princess voyage from Los Angeles. The voyage will return to Los Angeles next Tuesday. CDC officials say the causative agent in this outbreak was norovirus. GIANTmicrobes Norovirus Plush In response to the outbreak, Princess Cruises and the crew aboard the ship reported the following actions: Collected stool specimens from gastrointestinal illness cases for testing.

I’m getting a lot of social-media traffic this week about the band R.E.M. sitting down for a big interview with CBS on the occasion of their induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame (whose existence I think I learned about this week). This includes a clip in which they’re asked the inevitable “What about a reunion?” question, to which all four of them reply “Absolutely not” (more or less). This, of course, got me thinking about musical nostalgia; I am, after all, an academic, and overthinking stuff is What We Do.

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