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Hello friends! This is on Substack now. Hopefully you don’t notice that anything is like, different? Basically what this means is that if you want to give me money to do this, you can do that now. The recaps are going to continue to be free! So many free words, for you. But if you kick in a little bit, you can help me pick the next movie I watch (there are truly so many movies), or see pictures of my cats, or listen to me try to figure out how to edit audio into a podcast.

I have a personal mountain to climb, and I could think of no better company to bring along than you. There's a courage that comes from this creative endeavor that is a simple little newsletter about dogs but not about dogs. I'm on a journey of exploring Momo's life as I knew it, and hopefully as we've all known it. As an exercise for my new illustrated children’s book about pet loss, Find Momo Everywhere, recounting Momo's beautiful life – from beginning to beyond its end – is that mountain.

This project is pretty simple. As a complement to each race weekend, I’ll be cooking the national dish of that race’s host country and sharing information about the process and that dish’s history along the way in an effort to grow more deeply immersed in the local culture from my own home. If you’d have asked me to predict the national dish of Monaco, I think I’d have picked something like caviar or some swanky fish that costs too much money — or even something like bouillabaise, a fish soup from the south of France.

We’re continuing the semifinals! This is Day 11 of 14 for the Spades group of Champions Wildcard. The four-part Champions Wildcard will air through December 18th and will feature 108 contestants (27 in each group.) Contestants include 105 former champions (1, 2, and 3 day winners) from Season 37 and 38 plus the 3 Second Chance winners from September. If that was a lot to digest, here’s a more visual explanation & schedule from the Jeopardy!

Today we are kicking off the second and final group of 27 Wildcard contestants! This is Day 1 of 14 in the Season 39 Champions Wildcard (Group 2) - Wildcard Group 2 runs February 5th - 22nd - Contestants are listed here - This will be followed by the Tournament of Champions. I’m posting occasionally on various social media, but this newsletter is the best place to find daily recaps, photos, and announcements.

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(Credit: Flickr Creative Commons) Did you know I still have a Substack? Me either. In my defense, today is the first day in a long, long time that I've been able to sit down for longer than a few minutes to rest, let alone make good words on computer. Yeah, I’ve still got it. Between the book tour, trolling fundies with billboards, and shamelessly self-promoting my book at every turn - oh and family and all that other life stuff - it turns out making time to regularly write on my Substack has been…elusive.

Do you know what comes before New Year’s resolutions? I like to call them “Current year illusions”. These are the aspirations and promises we make to ourselves, stamped with a start date of next year. You know, goals like exercising more, saving more money, or losing more weight. But, in labeling them as next year’s tasks, we inadvertently create illusions in our minds that the perfect time to start is in the future.

I had given up on this season of RHOSLC (and this is coming from someone who did include a visit to the Beauty Lab parking lot as part of her trip to Utah), but based on your post, I may have to go back and watch the finale. I totally agree with your analysis that this kind of villainy, while great for the show in the short term is unsustainable in the long run.