I’m again from trip, The Bear is again for its second season and Love Island UK is again on Hulu. Holidays have been few and much between since 2020, so my husband and I went all out. We drove from Tennessee to New Mexico and spent a while in Santa Fe earlier than heading as much as Colorado after which driving again house via Kansas and Missouri.
I used to be speaking to Pleasure in regards to the journey and she or he mentioned she loves the sky within the southwest. She’s proper. The sky actually blew me away. There’s simply a lot of it. The sky, the low humidity, the cool temps at evening – I’m beginning to perceive why so many individuals need to transfer on the market.
Thanks for being right here. I’m glad to be again.
Kim
• I wrote a profile on Aura Mayari. Mayari was on the most recent season of RuPaul’s Drag Race and she or he is one in all Nashville’s beloved drag queens. We discuss Satisfaction, Tennessee’s drag ban and what it was like being on Drag Race. Learn it right here. (Nashville Scene)
• In case you’ve been round right here for awhile, you could do not forget that I misplaced my thoughts over S1 of The Bear. Nicely, I simply completed S2 and I could by no means get better. Sophomore stoop? We don’t know her. Each episode on this new season is tense, tender and heart-breaking. The Christmas episode? THE CHRISTMAS EPISODE?! Sure. Chef. (Pleasure the Baker, Hulu)
• In case you comply with me on Instagram, you’ll have seen very good photographs of me. These had been taken by Emily April Allen. Allen is a a lot sought-after photographer, in addition to an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ rights. For the Washington Submit, Allen wrote about and photographed a bit on trans visibility.
• Good friend of the pod, Lindsay Lynch wrote a e-book! Do Inform got here out on July 11 and I wrote about it right here. Lynch is the e-book purchaser for Parnassus Books and a pricey good friend of mine. This can be a e-book everybody goes to be speaking about. Get your copy right here. (Woman Land Podcast, Nashville Scene, Bookshop.org)
• Am I obsessive about the whales? In fact. Am I weighing the professionals and cons of getting a whale tattoo? You guess your ass I’m. Seems, I’m not alone. Lyz Lenz wrote about all issues whales, together with how many people assume we wish an orca completely inked onto our physique. (Substack)
• I like Lyz. Talking of ladies whose writing blows me away, my good friend Oliva wrote an essay on moms, hormone substitute remedy and the lineage of womanhood. Learn it and weep. (Nashville Scene)
• I don’t know what within the hell occurred within the New York Occasions column “The Ethicist,” nevertheless it appears unhealthy. I used to be on trip and ignoring the information. Fortunately, Ragen Chastain was clocked in and she or he breaks all of it down in her Substack, Weight and Healthcare.
• Loads of information broke whereas I used to be on trip, most notably the Supreme Courtroom’s affirmative motion determination. Grateful as all the time for Roxane Homosexual and her phrases and perception on what this horrible precedent might imply. (Substack)
• Whereas driving house from trip, we handed the Laura Ingalls Wilder house and museum. I remembered that one in all my favourite writers, Glynnis MacNicol spent all of final summer time researching Wilder and made a podcast about it. I’m midway via Wilder and I like it a lot. (Bookshop.org, iHeart Radio)
• I’m going to imagine all of us have a replica of Camp Pleasure. Solely Pleasure might write one thing that makes me gleeful to attempt one thing (tenting) that I’ve by no means thought I had the structure for (I hate to be sizzling, I hate bugs, and I don’t know how one can use the toilet exterior), however this little zine has me purchasing the REI sale and questioning if I can, in reality, make shakshuka within the woods. (Pleasure the Baker)
• An argument for going all in. (TikTok)
