Wordle 345 4/6
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Wordle 345 4/6
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Our Memorial Day weekend baking experiment: Zimtsterne, a German/Swiss cinnamon cookie made with almond meal, powdered sugar, and egg white, baked in a 250-degree oven on a hot day. Only 4 grams of carbs per 3-cookie serving!
I know the frosting is traditional, but thinking these might be better coated with powdered sugar (see the star in the lower right). F proposed the frosting might work better as a dip for the cookies.
Wordle 344 6/6
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Excellent girlsβ day out with F: splurged on new manga and a new D&D book; had breakfast and lunch out with lots of good talks; and binge-watched a lot of anime. Grateful.
Hope this bodes well for a summer of recalibrating after a rough end to middle school.
Wordle 343 4/6
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My kid is learning the hard way how much teenage girls can really suck toward one another.
Starting to experience PTSD all over again from my junior high and high school years. My goal is to make sure my kid has more support through these years than I ever did.
Wordle 341 6/6
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F is now a high school freshman. She wore Grandma Garciaβs diamond pendant, exactly a year and a day after her passing. Onward.
There are a couple of inevitable responses to a mass shooting in America: funerals and fundraisers, prayers from politicians and the resurfacing of one particular article from satirical site The Onion.
ββNo Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" has been republished 21 times in almost exactly eight years.β
I just saw a Uvalde shooting victim’s First Communion photo, and I am officially broken. Retiring from news and social media for a while.
Watched the two-part doc on the Kids in the Hall, “Comedy Punks,” hoping it might get me to like them. It didn’t work. I really want to like them (I’ve always thought Dave Foley was adorable, and I saw Scott Thompson outside a White Hen Pantry once in Chicago), but I can’t.
Wordle 340 5/6
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Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, dismissing “the Republican talking point that mass shootings are a problem of mental illness, not easy access to guns” (emphasis mine):
Spare me the bullshit about mental illness. We donβt have any more mental illness than any other country in the world. You cannot explain this through a prism of mental illness, because we donβt β weβre not an outlier on mental illness. Weβre an outlier when it comes to access to firearms and the ability of criminals and very sick people to get their hands on firearms. Thatβs what makes America different.
David French in The Atlantic ($):
Thoughts and prayers. It began as a clichΓ©. It became a joke. It has putrefied into a national shame.
If tonight, Americans do turn heavenward in pain and grief for the lost children of Uvalde, Texas, they may hear the answer delivered in the Bible through the words of Isaiah:
βAnd when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.β
Wordle 339 5/6
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Random thoughts:
Logged 50 work hours last week.
That’s it. That’s the post.
Wordle 338 4/6
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Fβs cooking class made alfajores, a shortbread-like sandwich cookie filled with dulce de leche and popular in South America, but a field trip for another class kept her from sampling them. So, we made them at home.
I thought Iβd be bored by todayβs morning ballgame on Peacock. But Jason Benetti and his rapport with the local baseball analysts du jour make the game eminently watchable. βΎοΈ
Wordle 337 4/6
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Wordle 335 6/6
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Whew, indeed.
Wordle 334 6/6
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Had a lovely visit this evening with Hudson, a Bernese mountain dog and worldβs largest lap animal.
Wordle 333 5/6
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