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Have reached the point in Florida life where a small lizard has taken up residence in the house and I’m cool with it. 🤷‍♀️

Wrapping up my first project with @wildsamguides soon and grateful to be learning with these folks. “Even through the mess and hectic news cycles, at the end of the day our view is that the world is good, and our books set out to prove that."-Taylor Bruce texasmonthly.com/travel/wildsam…

“Deep is so un-American now, even radical. We live too often like water skeeters on the surface of the pond, dropping down for a quick bite of insect or e-mail. Deep is the realm of soul.” ~ANNE LAMOTT

This gave me the rare sensation of feeling grounded while thinking about time. Thanks, @hannasusj. Love it.

“You need a good bull**** detector, you shouldn't rant, and you shouldn't cheerlead. But objectivity is dispassionate. And we're in the passion business. We're trying to make people feel something different than what they felt before they read our words.” tennessean.com/story/entertai…

“Leonard Cohen said his teacher once told him that, the older you get, the lonelier you become, and the deeper the love you need. This is because, as we go through life, we tend to over-identify with being the hero of our stories. 🧵1/

The family behind iconic local meat-and-three Arnold's Country Kitchen is making an "exit on our terms." Chris Chamberlain has all the details. nashvillescene.com/food_drink/bit…

For sports reasons, I wish I'd retweeted this yesterday, but it's never a bad day to read a beautiful essay about the great city of Philadelphia by Sara Nović!!

If he: -Changes his entire look for you -Travels 1,900 miles upstream to chase you -Procreates and dies -Replenishes an entire ecosystem with his carcass He's not your valentine, he's a Chinook salmon

An apt menu from a 1924 Nashville cookbook:

Lots to love about this Nashville Scene story by Margaret Littman (she/her). Like this quote by Benji Cook about the neon sign at wendellsmithsrestaurant's: “That is our baby,” Cook says. “I treasure my neon, for sure. If I ever closed the restaurant, I would cut that down and take it to my house.”

I post this every year....it’s an iconic image from my youth, taken 55 years ago, at the moment labor activist Cesar Chavez ended a 25 day fast with a piece of communion bread, given to him by then Sen Robert Kennedy. One week later, RFK would enter the 1968 Presidential race.

“If you are drawn to unusual stories and bold characters, and as a writer, I unabashedly am, Roadside Americana is like a signal flare.”

The first woman to solo thru-hike the entire Appalachian Trail was a 67 year-old grandma who did it in high-top Keds 🧵

Clearly going to be splendid read! So looking forward to reading / re-reading ALL these stories (and so happy to see my best girl jenniferjustus among the contributors).

IMPORTANT PSA: I'm told that Fox's Donut Den — home of the best apple fritters — is celebrating their 50th anniversary on Friday and is rolling back prices to 1973 levels for one day only. Do with this information what you wish.

In today’s brand new episode of BATCH 🎧 Nashville writer jenniferjustus dishes on Tammy Wynette's version of Better Than Sex Cake, a banana pudding that made Burt Reynolds (her boyfriend at the time) literally pass out, and so much more. Listen here : bittersoutherner.com/podcast/2022/b…

You were a dream host, @kyletibbsjones! Thank you for the warm welcome and fun questions. Vieeeeeena sausages forever.

This film...in #35mm film...introduced by the wonderful Erin Byers Murray? The highlight of my week...

The always eloquent jenniferjustus explains... Pickled vegetables, hot dogs and a beef with JD Vance open.substack.com/pub/thegracebe…