Category — Microblog Mondays

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Eater has an article about “house meals,” which are defined as “a dish that perhaps was once inspired by a recipe, but you’ve made it so many times, and riffed on it so often, that it bears little resemblance to any known dish. It is comfort food at its finest, a thing designed for your specific palate, with absolutely no thought paid to impressing anyone else.”

Ours is, without a doubt, this potato-and-Morningstar-vegetarian-bacon thing that Josh and I dreamed up years ago. It is so horrible-looking and horrible-sounding on paper. It is so good in your mouth. We have it at least once a month, down from once a week.

My other house meal is black beans and rice with roasted red peppers and an egg (over medium). It’s gooey and yummy and so easy to pull together without thinking.

My old house meal was a red sauce, but I’ve dropped it in favour of either Marcella Hazan’s red sauce or the one I learned from Da Mario’s last spring. So both real recipes, as opposed to the mess above which is unique to our home, and we’ll never serve it or give the recipe to anyone outside the house.

What is your house meal?

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Back in August, the BBC had an article about the upside to worrying. As someone who worries a lot, I was happy to have any excuse to continue with my anxiety rather than fight it.

Worrying moves you to action. If you’re scared about something, you’re more likely to do something about it if there’s something to do. Worried about that tiger? Run from it. Worried about the direction of your country? Vote. Worrying gets you prepared. Worrying helps you problem-solve.

I like this article because it doesn’t put down worrying. Instead, it acknowledges there is a time and place for worrying, and if you’re going to worry, there are ways to make the worrying useful.

I pass this along in case you are as worried as I am right now about the state of things.

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Most intriguing line I’ve read this week: “Over the past 35 years, MacNamara has read more than 8,000 strangers’ diaries.” She buys them online or through antique shops. She’s a diary hunter, reading other people’s private thoughts.

I went down a rabbit hole, ending up The Great Diary Project that has amassed 9000 unpublished diaries. They’re not cleaned up for public consumption, or written like a blog with a reader in mind. They are private thoughts that were tossed out by loved ones after a person died (or sometimes sold by the writer while they’re still alive) and ended up in a stranger’s hands.

I love this idea—reading someone’s unfiltered thoughts. Though I’m not sure how I would feel if my diaries ended up in someone else’s hands. Which makes me wonder if I should write up a plan for my diaries or get rid of them at some point.

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I like to remind the kids that my big plan is to haunt people after I’m gone. It may take awhile to learn how to haunt, but that’s where I’m placing my energy.

Popular Science ruined things—slightly—by pointing out this month seven reasons why people may think they experience ghosts. I say slightly because I’m using those ideas to better direct my future hauntings. For instance, I will never come to people if they are in a dark and scary place. I will only contact them while they are sitting in a brightly lit breakfast nook with a bowl of Cheerios. Scratch that. I would hate for the Cheerios to go soggy. I will only haunt after the Cheerios have been eaten. Try to explain THAT Popular Science: Considerate ghost waiting until you’re done with breakfast and in a well-lit space to do the haunting.

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I know the answer will be “nothing” for some people. They don’t reread books at all. Life is short, books are plentiful. Why reread a book instead of moving to a new one?

But as a rereader—Handmaid’s Tale, the Magicians trilogy, anything Tolkein, all of the Narnia books, the Phantom Tollbooth—I really liked this take on it: “Would you not go back to a place you loved because you’d been there once or never visit a friend because you thought you knew them? My most beloved places and people are those most familiar to me. Why would it be different with books? So, at this moment in a strange, devastating year, one that calls for the comfort of escape, I’ve compiled a list of my top rereads.”

Yes. Because it’s comforting. Because it feels good to revisit a story, just it feels good to return to a place or visit an old friend.

Which books do you reread? And if none, are you moved to reopen one after reading that quote?

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