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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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  • Close-up of Remy's face, a black pit bull, with both brown eyes looking up at the camera and Zach blurred on the couch behind him

    Life with a Pibble: Meet Remy

    Bykara March 29May 12 Personal

    I’m writing this with a 71-pound pit bull pressed against my side on the sofa. Full velcro-dog mode. He’s dreaming, twitching, and making those adorable snorting sounds that pit bulls do. His name is Remy, and he is categorically the least threatening creature on the planet. How We Got Remy We adopted Remy on February…

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