Hot Dog: Origins
What our love of specious food origin stories says about us.
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You Give Slop a Bad Name
The internet, to put it mildly, is a bleak place these days. It'd be hard to believe it if you didn't experience it first-hand, but this wasn't always the case. The internet was once a vibrant, useful and occasionally even aesthetically-pleasing place! Sure, there
Things I Thought While Cleaning the Fridge
School's back! Time for Show and Tell.
School's back! Okay, fine–school's actually been back for a while here; my kids started classes almost a month ago. I've been seeing first-day-of-school posts from parent friends from late July straight up to this week, so there's apparently quite a bit
It's a Brand New Season
Something's changed this week. The morning shadows have grown a little bit longer, and the barest hint of a chill has settled into the air, enough for me to don a jacket on the way to the school bus. Summer may not have struck its final blow yet–