I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.

This is well worth the read. And I am now wanting to replicate the winning loaf.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

😳

'Archival discoveries' from my own files, so to speak Nudges from friends

The blame for this some 6,000 word essay is on @doerr906.bsky.social who said "hey, what about that thing you wrote in 2009?" Here's my best attempt at a "Apologia Pro Vita Sua." Lots of water under the bridge since then but the river is still largely the same.

knapsack.substack.com/p/archival-d...

How literature and faith connect in a changing world | Faith Works Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill preacher reflects on how to share faith's message in a changing world, from street corners to literature.

My weekly @NewarkAdvocate column, about our common knowledge of stories, sacred & otherwise, and how that shared heritage shapes how we tell stories: first of a few parts.
www.newarkadvocate.com/story/opinio...

A Story About Two Very Different Men One day in September 1988 I got an anonymous letter addressed to me as the editor of Tropic, the Sunday magazine of The Miami Herald.

Two men, two lives, two sets of decisions. Hat tip @geneweingarten.bsky.social the storyteller.

open.substack.com/pub/genewein...

A Story About Two Very Different Men One day in September 1988 I got an anonymous letter addressed to me as the editor of Tropic, the Sunday magazine of The Miami Herald.

Two men, two lives, two sets of decisions. Hat tip @geneweingarten.bsky.social the storyteller.

open.substack.com/pub/genewein...

Hear, hear.

RT = Endorsement

‘And lo, it came to pass the Lord God did smite the nation, for they had turned from all that was good.’ - Psalms 1:30 (minutes on high)

Rehabilitation of the Dandelion!
No other plant in the Netherlands attracts as many bee species: 107. In early spring, when nothing else is blooming, it is simply there. Meadow bird chicks that have just hatched depend on the insects that are drawn to dandelions. No dandelion, no insect, no chick.

It take weapons grade arrogance to invent popesplaining.

#sunset behind a tree! What a perfect photo!

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

Get an extension to file your tax return | Internal Revenue Service If you need more time to file your taxes, request an extension and pay any tax you owe by the April filing due date.

Haven't started your taxes yet? Well...

www.irs.gov/filing/get-a...

Are you a believer in ghosts, my friend?

Why Do People Flock to the Rocky Statue? This Show Aims to Find Out.

Interpretation, & museum design, is complicated. This is an EXCELLENT example of why & how. Gift link!

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/a...

My @GranvilleSentinel column, about history & @America250, with an America 250-Ohio spin for Licking County, thanks to the WCLT radio family of stations & Jay Snyder's encouragement!
www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/l...

Opinion | How Ben Sasse Is Living Now That He Is Dying

2/2b
"...political institutions that are part of that institutional collapse."

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...

2/2a
...at all.

What we’re going to talk about is the fact that we were living through a technological revolution that was creating economic and cultural upheaval, and we were living through institutional collapse, and way, way, way, way, way below that, there's a whole bunch of..."

Opinion | How Ben Sasse Is Living Now That He Is Dying

You can listen to this, or scroll down & read it. But it's worth your time: especially since Ben thinks it's worth his time. Gift link: "The historian in me says 75 or 100 years from now, when you look back on our moment, we’re not going to talk about politics..."
1/2
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...

Nearly had a heart attack

#Cat
#Caturday

I don't want to hear about the "Madman Theory." That requires people on your side knowing what you will not do. No one knows what he will not do.

I did not know Epstein on a boat
I did not know Epstein with a goat
I did not know Epstein in the air
I did not know him anywhere!

From a post:

“Told my wife to have dinner ready by 6 or I'll obliterate her entire civilization.

So anyway, she now charges me a fee to use the bathroom that used to be free, and I didn't get any dinner, but I'm pretty sure I won that exchange.”

Why is this statement happening today?

Someone should have told her about Barbra Streisand, and her "effect."

The white flag, aka the official flag of the Confederacy

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

Oh, Madame First Lady, I have two words for you today: Barbra Streisand.

Enjoy! Timberline Lodge has great chili. ;-)

Not an exaggeration.