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May 12, 2025

*The Week In 15 Selections*

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I skipped last week’s links because I was busy having the week off and not looking at my phone and devouring books.

Anyway, I’m trying a new format where things aren’t numbered! Please let me know if you like or hate this!

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🔹 The Icelandic poppies drank and bloomed and died. I will wait another 52 weeks for them to return. 🔹 “I like no. It’s sidewise to a reverse mantra (om). It’s stealthy, portable, and unslouching.” 🔹 I ate an entire box of blackberries— so juicy, so tart— at the beach while my friend surfed. 🔹 “One thing that’s unique about Tommy is that family is so important to him.” 🔹 Sometimes, you just want to feel like a miserable 90s movie heroine at a turning point in her life 🔹 Darling, please won’t you turn on the light. No not that one. The one that looks like a beautiful cocktail umbrella.🔹 you (gay) are what you eat (also gay) 🔹 The new pope being American has made me feel great about my choice to re-watch The Young Pope. 🔹 “It should go without saying—­but never does—­that human society is the result of those who make it, deliver it, tend it, replace it.” 🔹 I love a voice that sounds like it’s 100 years old. 🔹 The swirl of being inside the same day for years on end will captivate me forever. 🔹 Asparagus is in season, bright and long and perfect for grilling. 🔹 I bought the BRICK and unfortunately it works great. 🔹 There is so much creativity in the world if you only look 🔹 There are pigs in a blanket at Loretta’s that have a whole hot dog wrapped in laminated croissant dough, if you want to have a better Monday.

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I wrote about the mess at Newark Airport last week and probably this week and for every week ever after.

See you next week!

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