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Ordrupgaard museum, including the separate architect Finn Juhl's house (seen in the 2nd photo). They had a special exhibition of Camille Pissarro, who was born in what was then Danish colony St. Thomas.

Glyptoteket museum, Copenhagen Denmark

Canal Tours Copenhagen (great 1-hour boat tour around the city)

Christianborg Palace, Royal Reception Halls, Copenhagen Denmark

The apartment is three blocks from the largest park in Copenhagen called Fælledparken. Since it doesn't get dark until about midnight (and then the sun rises around 4 am), walking and jogging in the park is a safe endeavor late into the evening. Every weekday from 7:00 - 10:00, there is couples dancing at a little amphitheater within the park. We saw them when the night they had salsa dancing. The Danes can salsa, let me tell you!

deodorant musings

Me: It was so hot I didn’t stop sweating the entire week I was in Cuba. And I forgot to bring deodorant!!

My friend: Did you know your BO smells worse when you’re under stress?

Me: That’s true, but I was pretty relaxed. In fact, the only thing stressing me out was that I forgot my deodorant!

Very good restaurant in New Vedado neighborhood of Havana, Cuba. Located on Calle 24 between 41st and Conil. Open daily 12 noon to midnight

#Cuba

U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba

After years of research, my recs for luxury-bed-on-a-budget

I didn’t start out buying inexpensive linens and mattress. The last mattress I bought was at one of those July 4th mattress sales at Macy’s over 4 years ago. God how I wish Casper and other online mattress companies existed back then, I would have saved over $1000! I also splurged on Charisma sheets from Neiman Marcus (the fitted sheet pilled after a month), sheet sets with high ratings on Overstock.com, an Italian fitted sheet that was too tight for my mattress and an LLBean sheet that billowed on my mattress. Fitted sheets are my nemesis, everything about them drives me nuts (folding one, fuhgheddaboutit). But alas, my Mom discovered the miracle at Target.

Fitted sheet: Threshold™ 300 Thread Count Ultra Soft Fitted Sheet from Target.

Since I liked the Threshold fitted sheet so much, I tried the flat. Love the size, softness and thickness. Threshold™ 300 Thread Count Ultra Soft Fitted Sheet from Target

Pillowcases (silk, because I don’t have any particularly strong recommendations for a cotton): 22 momme White 100% Pure Mulberry Silk Pillowcases (don’t bother with 19 or less momme (”mm”), they’re too thin).

Mattress: there are numerous choices out there for excellent mattresses in the $300-$850 range (for queen). I can recommend this one, it’s like sleeping on a dense cloud: Brentwood Home 11-Inch Gel HD Memory Foam Mattress, Made in USA, CertiPUR-US, 25 Year Warranty, Natural Wool Sleep Surface and Bamboo Cover, Queen

Also companies like Casper, Tuft & Needle, Leesa, Linenspa have 30-100 night guarantees. We bought a Tuft & Needle twin for a guest room, and although too firm for slide sleepers, the company is excellent, good quality product and 100% honors the guarantee.

PSA re: Blinski’s sausages

Let me just say that these sausages Blinski’s pesto romano chicken sausage taste delicious.

But their odor is unrelenting. It first hits you when you open the package. Bam! "Are these rancid?” (Note: make sure you don’t put the package in your garbage can)

Cooking the chicken sausages requires maximum ventilation and opening of windows. The smell is not like other malodorous food; they smell like something you wouldn’t eat.

You’d think after the cooking smells subside, this would be over. Yet I have two sausages left, inside a sealed Tupperware container in the refrigerator. When I open the fridge, the smell permeates from inside the container and hits you hard.

wineandazaleas

The front page of Charleston’s newspaper “The Post and Courier” this morning.

Nine roses made out of sweetgrass, followed by names of each of the victims, with a short description of their talents and passions. If you’ve never visited the Lowcountry, sweetgrass baskets and other handwoven items made from the grass are a distinct centuries-old part of Charleston’s culture which makes this quite a touching way to honor the nine lives that were lost.

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profeminist

PATAKI, TIME TO TAKE A STAND!

THE UPDATED PROFEMINIST GUIDE TO THE CURRENT VOTING POOL

You can see the Planned Parenthood voters chart minus the sassy gifs here

U.S. readers, register to vote here

circanews

We’re the first country in the world to enshrine marriage equality in our constitution and do so by popular mandate. That makes us a beacon, a light to the rest of the world, of liberty and equality. So it’s a very proud day to be Irish.

(via circanews)

Congratulations Ireland, may you be an inspiration to us all!

Mr. (Jeb) Bush has tried to defend himself and his brother by arguing that the intelligence was faulty: “mistakes were made.” That is yet another of his responses. But many of those mistakes were not mistakes at all; they were the result of the deliberate political abuse and fabrication of intelligence. The deliberately cherry-picked intelligence was concocted in order to influence the decision that led to the deaths and injuries of tens of thousands of Americans, countless hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and the quagmire in the Middle East in which we have been enmeshed for the past decade.

Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who was one of the voices against the rush to war in 2001 after going to Niger to investigate the allegation that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy yellowcake uranium for Iraq’s fictional nuclear program. Wilson found the allegation to be false, and was then demonized by all the Bush/Cheney warmongers who were determined to go to war. His wife’s CIA undercover identity was then exposed by the Bush administration.

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Mouth of Rio Canasi, where the river find the Straits of Florida on the north coast of Cuba.

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