Hi from Missouri! We flew into Kansas City on Saturday and spent a couple days with friends there, and now we’re on our way to Springfield to visit my parents. We’ll be here for the week and posting will be sporadic in the meantime. As always, you can peruse the the forums, and here are a few posts you may have missed in the past (and if you’d like to follow some of our trip, I’ll probably post a little on Instagram).

Here are a few things from around the web that may interest you:

My In-Laws Are Careless About My Deadly Food Allergy!

And here’s a response to the column from Marie Claire: “Hot New Trend Alert: Poisoning Your Son’s Wife”

“Not so long ago, Japanese women who remained unmarried after the age of 25 were referred to as “Christmas cake,” a slur comparing them to old holiday pastries that cannot be sold after Dec. 25. Today, such outright insults have faded as a growing number of Japanese women are postponing or forgoing marriage, rejecting the traditional path that leads to what many now regard as a life of domestic drudgery.”

— Craving Freedom, Japan’s Women Opt Out of Marriage

This was interesting: How Social Media Shapes Our Identity

This is a long but riveting story worth a read on your lunch hour: “The Harvard Professor and the Paternity Trap”

It Might Be Time To Cut My Right-Wing, Trump-Loving In-Laws Out Of My Kids’ Lives

Thank you to those who submitted links for me to include. If you see something around the web you think DW readers would appreciate, please send me a link to [email protected] and, if it’s a fit, I’ll include it in Friday’s round-up. Thanks!

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Pimm’s Cup

1 Persian cucumber, thinly sliced
1 Cup Pimm’s
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/2 cup Fever Tree ginger beer
Sliced seasonal fruit like: lemons, oranges, strawberries, and rhubarb

Muddle half the cucumber in a cocktail shaker, add the Pimm’s, lemon juice, and some ice. Cover and shake, shake, shake. Strain into two ice-filled, chilled glasses, about 3/4 full. Top with ginger beer and stuff with fruit and additional half of the cucumber. Amaze and be amazed.

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