April 2025

Smell the Coffee? What About That Turkey Stuffing?

Hot plum pudding with brandy sauce. Pumpkin pie, fresh out of the oven, melting into the custard. Home-baked cookies, or a cake cooling on the counter. You can smell them before you even see them.

Or maybe it’s red wine steeped with cinnamon and cloves—the siren song of mulled wine calling you home on a winter’s night.

Croissants in Paris, still warm, with real butter and even more real European coffee—dark, rich, and blessed with that smoky caramel scent you only get from beans grown halfway across the world.

Roasts. Gravy. Toasted bread. Spiced fruit. Deep-fried anything.

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Still Flying: Why Amelia Earhart’s Mystery Might Be Better Unsolved

There’s something about a good mystery that just gets under your skin, isn’t there? The kind that makes you sit up a little straighter when it shows up in a documentary at 11:30 p.m. and suddenly you have to know what happened. Amelia Earhart is one of those mysteries. Maybe the mystery.

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Subsonic, Supersonic, Hypersonic—The Hidden World of Bullets in Romantic Suspense

Did you know there are different types of bullets, not just different shapes? From sneaky subsonic to lightning-fast hypersonic, here’s the juicy, nerdy side of bullets that makes your favorite romantic suspense scenes extra cool (and believable).

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