big muddy hearts:

foodaday:

Happy National Buttermilk Biscuit Day (May 14).

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nolafoodporn:

Creole spiced and seared sea scallops with grits from Manning’s

finduskeepus:

spiders

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myheadisweak:

Day and Night in New York City Captured in Single Images by Stephen Wilkes.

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How could my experience and that of so many other black women be so different from the official statistics? I wanted to find out — so I started digging. Because so many news reports repeat the 70 percent figure without citing a source, I went straight to the mother lode of demographic data: the U.S. Census. And what I found was shocking: While, according to 2009 data, it’s true that 70.5 percent of black women were never married compared with 45 percent of white women, look closer and you’ll see that the figure pertains only to women between the ages of 25 and 29. Not that surprising, right? Researching further, I found another U.S. Census statistic that may have sparked the frenzy. According to the 2009 data, only 30 percent of black women were married — but the data includes every female from 15 years old up to 90-somethings. So … my ba—By cousin and grandmother are single. Is that really a crisis?

Race and Relationships - Interracial Relationships - Marie Claire (via npr)

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oh no you dittent. i’d be like, light, get yo’ a#$ back here where you belong.

slaughterhouse90210:

“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

Adulting: Step 200: Live alone, at least once →

adulting:

I first lived alone after taking a reporting job in rural Mississippi just after graduation. The first three weeks were tortuous, because I love chattering on to other people and all of a sudden, much of my day was silent. I’d come home and tell my cat how my day went, then make myself a Stouffers…