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NOTE: A couple months ago, we made refrigerator magnets of my \u201cDid You Have A Good Adventure?\u201d chart, and sold out of them in a few hours. We just made another batch of 100, and also printed 100 posters (8.5\u201d x 11\u201d), and if you\u2019d like to grab one before they\u2019re gone, here\u2019s a link to check them out<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I can\u2019t believe I just discovered that Randall Munroe of XKCD fame has been making these \u201cWhat If?\u201d videos for two years now, but this one, \u201cWhat if you dropped a bowling ball in the Mariana Trench?\u201d was incredibly entertaining and interesting for its sub-3-minute runtime. (video<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Boy do I have some nostalgia for the Columbia House CD catalogs of the 1990s\u2014and a funny story about a collection agency that is way too long for the Friday version of this newsletter, but maybe I\u2019ll write it up some Thursday. But if you knew about Columbia House, and you didn\u2019t know the company was still around, well, it\u2019s finally shutting down next month<\/strong><\/a>. (via Kottke)<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying I had anything to do with this essay being hilarious and absolutely spot-on with some of my own experiences trying to get my kid to sleep in his own bed over the past couple years, but Jeanette did attend this year\u2019s Running to Stand Still writing workshop, during which we all encouraged her to write more, which she did, and after reading her piece, \u201cWe Ride at Dawn,\u201d<\/strong><\/a> I think you might encourage her to do the same.<\/p>\n

This past Tuesday, I finished reading The Size of Your Joy<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, Elise Powers\u2019 book of poems that I\u2019ve had in this newsletter for a while, and in the final pages of the book I (finally!) found the poem that led me to buy the book a couple months ago: Small Inconveniences, which you can read on her Substack.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This is not a long article, but I appreciated the concept, \u201cA brief consideration of some fictional big boys,\u201d inspired by the newest season of Reacher, and this bit: \u201cWhile Reacher may be our current moment\u2019s most beloved answer to the question \u2018What if a guy was really big?\u2019 he is by no means the only one. Plenty of authors have explored the possibilities inherent in hugeness.\u201d [GIFT LINK<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n

I just found out about this website, Beautiful Public Data, and was delighted by this presentation of more than 50,000 boat names<\/strong><\/a> culled from NOAA vessel traffic data, and the ability to browse by category (puns!).<\/p>\n

Books I\u2019m Currently Reading:<\/b><\/p>\n

My friend Sally recommended this brand-new book to us, and I of course was interested because of the big change in my life that has caused a thousand other little changes (including, presumably, how my brain works). I\u2019m only one chapter into it so far but I am already impressed and grateful for Saxby\u2019s engaging writing style.<\/em><\/p>\n

I picked up this meditative book on, you guessed it, how to wash dishes, at our local bookstore, noting that the \u201cStaff Picks\u201d card inside it was from the owner, Garth, with the simple note \u201cthis should settle some arguments.\u201d I\u2019m only about halfway through it, and we don\u2019t have any arguments about dishwashing at our house, but I\u2019m enjoying it so far.<\/i><\/p>\n

Hilary was reading this for months and absolutely gushing over it, and there\u2019s only so much you can hear about one book before you just say \u201cI\u2019ll go ahead and borrow that whenever you\u2019re finished.\u201d And I am happy to say it\u2019s as good as she said it was (although I would be terrified of taking on the challenge of writing about five different [famous] artists all in the same book like Mary Gabriel did).<\/i><\/p>\n

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