Isn't RyanAir the company that briefly debated charging passengers to use the loo? ;) Wishing you safe travels.

A little bit of spring for you.

I looooove Snag. Discovered them when I lived in Scotland and was so pleased to find you can get them in the US! Love that color, too!

Snag tights? Or We Love Colors?

Please also post about your research, if you'd like to. I love reading what others are doing. (I'm not in your field, though.)

That railing! *swoon*

Open book with illustration of a woman, her body open to show her womb and a flower covering her genitals

This midwifery text covers not only childbirth but menopause and menstruation as well. Like most writers in the 1600s, its author Jane Sharp used euphemistic language for these taboo subjects. She referred to menstruation as ‘the flowers’

Find out more in Rag👉 www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/rag...

Where I come from, we just brag about the days when Buddy Cianci sold his Sunday gravy in the grocery stores...

Thank you - I just requested one from the library! Always looking for recommendations. I haven't quite found anyone I love as much as Mary Stewart, but always looking.

I feel your pain, but if it's any consolation, I have reviewed for multiple fellowship programs, and I never disqualified anyone for a missing word. ;)

My comfort reads: anything by Robin McKinley, but especially The Blue Sword; vintage mysteries by Mary Stewart, especially Nine Coaches Waiting; vintage thrillers by Barbara Michaels. I re-read every book by the last two in 2020 (I own them all - most are vintage or first editions).

Good luck and wishing you speedy healing!

Did you know there is also a California Rare Book School and one in London? So many lovely things to choose from!

If you were doing a ride down 38th, you could also hit Duck-Duck Coffee, which is fantastic, and if you kept going to the greenway, Fireroast Coffee has excellent iced coffee (house-made syrups) and homemade scones, and Mother Earth Gardens is just a few blocks farther. One of my favorite routes.

Can I suggest Pumphouse Creamery? It's at 48th & Chicago, and their ice cream (made in house, all local ingredients) is out of this world good...!

That's what is so confusing - the articles are overwhelmingly positive. Like, glowing and over-the-top and not particularly insightful. The LW profile is just the most recent one. Maybe someone on the editorial board's pet topic?

It's interesting reading this after reading the article (about the new book) in The NY Times last week. (Has anyone else noticed that the NYT runs *a lot* of articles about polyamory? It's ... disconcerting.) I'm persuaded not to read it, to be honest. The article had already left me with questions.

You could potentially plan something like to coincide with Doors Open Minneapolis? That would take care of the architecture part of it.

I'll never forget the first time I walked into a bathroom at a Scottish university, and there were free feminine hygiene products - including brand-new Diva cups - out and available for all. (This is legally required by the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act 2021.)

For reference, in the UK you can buy "Tesco Essentials Maxi Towels 10 Pack" at Tesco (a grocery store) for £0.45. (That's $0.59.) Yet again, when it comes to women's health in the U.S., it doesn't have to be this way.

You seem to know all the best old-fashioned restaurants and dive bars in the Twin Cities - when will you write up a guide for the rest of us? ;)

And carrying not one but two children - what incredible strength.

I know that my writing procrastination has reached new levels when I start emailing multiple French museums in a likely futile attempt to set up a research appointment. What's next, tackling the giant pile of laundry?! Reorganizing my bookshelves?! Does my procrastination have no limits, I ask you?

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Signs that you teach a class on empire (as I do): you listened to this video and got an absolute (and incongruous) look of glee on your face when the Belgian Congo was mentioned...! Historians <3 history, even the atrocious bits.

I grew up in Florida, so I am pleased to say that every end-of-the-year field trip was to EPCOT Center, Busch Gardens, or Sea World. All amusement parks, all the time!

Opinion | Why Minnesota Matters More Than Iran for America’s Future

An Op-Ed about events in Minnesota over the past few months, with wonderful photographs by local Hmong-American photographer Pao Houa Her.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/o...

I'm assuming it means that people just don't cook anymore (for a multitude of reasons) and are worried that delivery drivers won't be able to get through! Personally, we just stocked up on cheese, as usual. ;)

We stocked up on firewood and Ibuprofen. Hope y'all weather the storm safely!

p.s. Have you read Interlacings?