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  • Texas-Style Margarita Mix (For When You’re Actually Throwing a Party)

    Texas-Style Margarita Mix (For When You’re Actually Throwing a Party)

    Bykara May 7May 12 Cooking, Recipes

    Here’s the thing about me and margaritas: I love a well-made one. Same with a good paloma. Fresh lime juice, real grapefruit juice, decent tequila, none of that bottled neon-green stuff sweetened with corn syrup. Our local Mexican restaurant in Alpharetta makes them properly: fresh-squeezed citrus, balanced sweetness, no shortcuts. When I’m out and the…

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  • a square pitcher of sun tea, brewing on the front door step. There is purple catmint and a cream rosebush in the background. The tea is a light golden color with green tags hanging out of the pitcher.

    What Cinco de Mayo Actually Is (and Why I Still Make Enchiladas)

    Bykara May 3April 28 Food & Politics, Personal

    I did not grow up observing Cinco de Mayo. Nobody in my Texas family did. It wasn’t a holiday in the way Christmas or Thanksgiving or even the Fourth of July was a holiday; it was a date on the calendar that occasionally meant something at school and otherwise didn’t. In college it became an…

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  • A thin crescent Earth, lit along its upper edge, rises above the cratered far side of the Moon against the black of space. NASA Artemis II flyby photograph, April 6, 2026.

    Friday Roundup #23 (From Florida, Because Mermaids)

    Bykara May 1May 12 Friday Roundup

    This roundup is coming to y’all from Weeki Wachee, where I’m spending the long weekend with a friend. If you’re not familiar, Weeki Wachee is a Florida state park where women have been performing as live mermaids in an underwater theater since 1947. Yes, really. And yes, we’re going to see them. We’ve rented a…

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