Frab’s Magazines, the wonderful Italian magazine shop. I’d first come across Frab’s last spring, and fell into a deep (and expensive) rabbit hole of magazine ordering; I’m still reading my way through ...

Where a dead lift — which we tested earlier in the month — is picking up a barbell off the floor, a back squat is holding the barbell on your shoulders, squatting down, and then standing up. I ...

Marcela Garcés is a professor at Siena College in New York, and as a side hustle she and her husband Yuri Morejón run La Centralita, a culinary studio that aims, among other things, “to teach guests ...

One of the casualties of Hurricane Fiona, in 2022, was a plum tree that Catherine and her father planted many years ago. The tree had been a prolific producer of plums for years— I made a tasty ...

After taking some time to think about it, my answer was “the power to not care what other people think.” “I can give you that power right now,” he replied. And so now I have it. Lines and paragraphs ...

William Denton wrote yesterday, in a postscript to a blogpost: No library in Canada had this book, and I got it through interlibrary loan from Rice University in Texas. Resource sharing departments ...

We’re in a six week cycle of strength conditioning at Kinetic, and today’s workout was a build to a single “ RPE 10” deadlift (“lift as much as you can while maintaining technique”). I lifted 245 ...

Manuel Moreale writes about his frustrations with using Ko-Fi as a "micropayments" system to support his work: It honestly sucks that in 2024 there’s not a good way to support creators with small ...