Weekend Reads v. 26.7.2024

Big Box stores in the U.S. may be showing signs of Back to School frenzy, but I am staying firmly planted smack dab in the middle of summer, thank you very much. They can keep their Trapper Keepers and mechanical pencils, and I’ll linger just a bit longer with my wilted tomato garden and warm evenings! Hope you have a wonderful weekend ahead of you.
Supposedly the best 33 things to buy at Costco.
Pablo Escobar’s abandoned hippos are wreaking havoc in the Colombian jungle.
If you’re bored at work, here are two browser games What Beats Rock? and version of MS Paint (remember that??).
Sometimes I open up my Airbnb app and get lost looking at apartments and houses somewhere else. This round up of 10 Airbnbs along the Italian Coast tells me I’m not the only one with this hobby.
This Substack note by Marylin Simon about modern 12- to 18-year-olds caught my eye.
But as they live without sacred cows, so too do they live without the sacred. Increasingly, though, …



