- Breakfast for dinner
- A well-constructed spreadsheet
- Getting all the salt and sludge washed off of my car
- The You’re Wrong About podcast
- The If Books Could Kill podcast
Category: the best of it
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The Best of It: Wait, It’s Not Friday? Edition
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The Best of It: Mostly About the Food Edition
- John is in the process of building my Pilates Cadillac!
- The sandwiches at Cafe Miami
- Crown Candy Kitchen
- John making pho completely from scratch for Sunday dinner
- The ease of getting Topo Chico in St. Louis grocery stores.
Breakfast sandwich perfection -
The Best of It: Christmas Eve Edition
If you have a balcony, put a Christmas tree on it. - Decorating our balcony with a Christmas tree.
- Spending solstice writing a renku via email with an Austin friend.
- Italian food for dinner tonight.
- Binge-watching Abbot Elementary
- Rereading Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day
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The Best of It: After a Hiatus Edition
Who doesn’t love a good dog picture? - Having a phone with portrait mode
- Patrizi’s Italian Restaurant
- Getting to have the Salt Lick experience before I leave
- Finding a barely-used Krups waffle maker for $10 at the thrift store
- Outdoor poetry gatherings
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The Best of It: Dog Days of Summer Edition
The dog days are upon us! - High’s Cafe in Comfort, Texas
- Driving through the ranch roads of the Texas Hill Country
- The Family Secrets podcast
- The Sounds Like a Cult podcast
- Richard Wright’s Haiku
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The Best of It: Stormy Saturday Edition
Park trip on the only non-rainy Saturday in a month! - Making my most favorite pasta dish
- Time with my memoir group
- Able to walk Astrid during the brief period of sunshine
- Having a totally clean apartment
- Silence
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The Best of It: Brief Summer Break Edition
So happy we found each other - Celebrating Astrid’s first adoption anniversary
- Celebrating 13 years in Austin
- Getting to go to my first in-person poker night in over a year
- It’s pasta salad season!
- Inherited a beautiful potted plant from my neighbors who are moving
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The Best of It: Spring Semester is Over Edition
Astrid isn’t very subtle when it comes to popcorn. - The salted PB&J ice cream pie recipe by Sohla El-Waylly
- Getting most of my summer prep done early so I can have some actual time off
- Plans for small outdoor writer gatherings
- Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
- Getting to FaceTime with John regularly while he’s in Denmark
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The Best of It: Last Week of the Semester Edition
First cheesecake, best cheesecake - I made cheesecake for the first time, and it was a success!
- Buying a mattress for which I am not the second or third owner.
- Signing up for my comprehensive Level 1 Pilates teacher training.
- Booking myself a DIY writing retreat in the Texas Hill Country
- The end of the grading queue is in sight
