Because you final heard from me, I’ve made a batch of salsa verde from my backyard, cleaned and arranged my kitchen, made bouquets with these zinnias from my flower patch, spent numerous hours engaged on Floso (my soiled soda enterprise right here in Oregon), and drafted my fantasy soccer group.

I’m sorry to say I haven’t learn a single e book this summer time that I preferred—however I’m positive one is on the market. Please inform me you’ve learn one thing you simply can’t cease enthusiastic about. After which promptly let me know the title within the feedback so it can save you me from this distress.

I’ve found I like the solar as a lot as the following woman. I like my backyard, my afternoon salads, my tomato sandwiches, my peach butter on cinnamon toast, my iced espresso. However I gained’t go kicking and screaming into fall. No—I like foggy mornings and nights spent spooning steaming soup greater than something.

I’m saying this since you would possibly see a by line in as we speak’s Sunday hyperlinks. This woman is preparing for autumn.

•  This week on Substack, I printed a listing of issues I do to get my kitchen prepared for fall: filling glass jars with my home made taco seasoning, chili seasoning, and Italian seasoning; organizing and prepping my baking cupboard so I’m prepared when the temper strikes. (Substack)

•  The Menendez brothers had a parole listening to this Thursday—a step ahead of their attainable launch. BBC covers how popular culture performed a robust hand in even getting them this far. I discover it fascinating how public opinion usually has its claws within the steadiness of justice. The identical grip that solidified their authentic life sentence now has the potential for a diminished sentence. (BBC)

•  My TikTok feed is flooded with youngsters being despatched off to varsity—adorning their new dorms, crying over a Wendy’s meal, lacking dwelling. However do you know Harvard (and Yale) admissions was based mostly solely on class, not grades? Incoming freshmen have been even divided by perceived household hierarchies. I do know, I wasn’t shocked both. This text takes us on somewhat experience by the historical past of those prestigious universities and the weird causes that system ended. (Historical past.com)

•  We’re heading into the twenty fourth anniversary of 9/11. Whereas a era who by no means skilled that day is beginning to poke enjoyable at it on the web, it doesn’t sit proper with me—particularly when the loss of life toll from that occasion remains to be climbing, lots of them first responders and cleanup crews. (ABC)

•  As an enormous 49ers fan, I’m a football-loving girlie. I look ahead to the season yearly—hoping, praying, that that is the 12 months we lastly take dwelling that Lombardi. However whilst a fan by and thru, I can’t brush over the very actual challenge of home violence within the NFL. At instances it looks like dashing tickets and home violence are handled with the identical severity. ESPN covers the reported arrests for the reason that notorious Ray Rice case (2014) and the adjustments the league has made since then. (ESPN)

•  Do you might have a consolation present? Mine is cyclical: within the winter it’s Women, in the summertime it’s Jersey Shore, within the spring it’s Dawson’s Creek, and naturally—Gilmore Women within the fall. It is smart, I’m a millennial. However a brand new era of ladies are discovering Gilmore Women and loving it for a similar causes we do. With all of the topical humor and you-had-to-be-there one-liners, I’m all the time shocked to listen to they like it simply as a lot as I do. (Vox)

•  There’s no true season for self-tanner, however fairly quickly we’ll be lacking our glowing pores and skin. I’ve not too long ago been loving this one from Coco & Eve.

•  I’ve already packed away the substances to make Pleasure’s Brown Butter Pumpkin Texas Sheet Cake once more. It’s going to be the very first thing I bake as soon as this warmth wave is gone. I’ve made it just a few instances since capturing it for the weblog, so you realize it’s simply THAT good. (Pleasure the Baker)

•  Keith Lee, the viral TikTok meals reviewer who rose to fame for conserving mom-and-pop eating places afloat along with his 0–10 rankings, simply visited Portland. Having lived there for years (and now simply an hour exterior), I’m not shocked he listed Portland in his prime three meals cities—bumping Houston out of the working. Sorry, Pleasure! The meals scene right here can be how Pleasure and I randomly met in the future in a scorching industrial kitchen. Blessed! For those who ever have the prospect to go to, you gained’t be disenchanted.

•  As an enormous fan of scary films, Daniel and I went to see Weapons in theaters, and we weren’t disenchanted. Zach Cregger—as soon as a sketch comic—is following within the footsteps of Jordan Peele, mixing horror with humor and making the viewer’s journey extra complicated. The place there as soon as have been low cost soar scares and low-budget writing, a more recent, deeper style could also be brewing on the earth of horror.