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• This is a genius app. I've put it on my phone, just in case a run goes really sour.
• Speaking of running: I had no idea this happened and it's just up the road.
• Saving for later.
• On costume design and the delightful Schitt's Creek. 
• The fundamental mysteries of live theater.
• Rotting fruit but not really.
• I, too, keep a list of things that aren't comets.
• This is an amazing piece of writing. 
• The first few paragraphs of this New Yorker piece explain money laundering really well.
• The money quote: Goop, a one-stop shop for people hell-bent on perfecting themselves, has helped sell Americans on the idea that “wellness” means buying things until you feel better. 

Some shameless promo -- I had a thing happen during a run that had never happened before. I wrote about it over at Another Mother Runner.

Many things:

• This is me.
• Related. (FYI: this piece also name checks my favorite historic nun.)
• The best satire is almost indistinguishable from reality.
• How I travel.
• This piece is as beautiful as everyone has said it is. 
• I remember running into Watergate Salad all the time as a kid during the 1970s. I wasn't a fan. I, too, wondered where it came from and where it went. Now I know.
• Ellen Raskin remains one of my favorite writers.

• From the desk of Emma Lazarus
• It's okay that it is hard.
• Nice melons.
• This has made the rounds before but it gets more meaningful for me each time I read it.
• You should be listening to Conspiracyland.
• Sounds like a great place for a summer home.
• If any of you find yourself in Cooperstown, give me a call. I'm only a few minutes away...
• I want to go here.
• Laura Lippman is my new hero.
• How are your levels of rage? Could you stand a little more? 

And in shameless self-promotion: all about a sweaty, celebratory 5K in Seneca Falls over at another mother runner.

• The Washington Post understands me.
• All of these are true.
• You'd be shocked what you can find in college yearbooks (and I say this as someone who spends a lot of time looking through them).
• Bang Bang Girl Gang.
• This is a huge problem in Otsego County, too, and there are no great solutions.
• Next time I'm in Japan (and there will be a next time), I plan to collect as many of these as possible.
• Megan Rapinoe can tell you where to put your "yes, buts."
• My expectations for pants/trousers is the same.

And some shameless promo: a word or two about the summer and running and giant roosters over at Another Mother Runner.

• I, um, wow.
• The more I read from Taffy Brodesser-Akner, the more I want to read from her. The last graf of this is perfection.
• Somehow, I am always surprised by how petty people can be.
• We fear the wrong things.
• This world is a wonder.
• This is a searing, gorgeous piece of writing that will change absolutely nothing.

• It's all about the vagus nerve.
• The school photo industry.
• Brains are weird and terrifying.
• Cats gotta cat, yo.
• I might have posted this once already but it remains a great story.
• Challenge accepted.
• I could watch this for days.
• This anger isn't new...
• ... and this is why.
• ... or maybe this.

• No one would name a bear Ron.
• Local politics, yo.
• Nevermind.
• My management style. 
• Never underestimate knitters.
• It doesn't get easier. You get stronger.
• This pleases me.
• Project 562.
• Proving a long-held theory of mine.
• Oh, dear.

• I think something like this needs to happen in Oneonta.
• Did you know there's a company that rents rubber ducks for charity rubber duck races? Now you do.
• I don't want anyone to complain that U.S. elections are too cumbersome.
• Misty Copeland's comments are great and all but these pictures are divine.
• Knoxville seems a lot classier now that I've been away for 15 years.

• This is infuriating. The first time I was prescribed an antidepressant, I was told to just quit taking it if it wasn't working out. Which was awful in all of the ways described in this story -- and I was told it couldn't be happening. In-fur-i-a-ting.
• If only I had the metabolism of a husky.
• In keeping with my Iditarod obsession. (I'm rooting for Aily Zirkle, btw. If you haven't seen her episode of Losers on Netflix, you should.)
• Fascinating.
• It's the most wonderful time of the year (a little late).
• A senstive-but-honest take on a question running is wrestling with.
• Speaking of track and field.

• My favorite last line didn't make the list but these are still some pretty good ones.
• Why has it taken us so long to study this? (I know the answer but still)
• In case you need it.
• I'm sure this is fine.
• We are living in the future.
• As one who works on a college campus, I am unsurprised by this. 
• More on that Esquire story about Bryan Singer.
• This is the future, people. And the past.
• My new favorite artist.