I wear shorts in warmer weather, including pretty much all through summer when I’m not at work. I also wear them in the house, even in cold weather, when I’m doing something that’s likely to make me sweat, like cleaning or moving stuff around.
I only use cursive for my signature. Otherwise I print, relatively legibly. I’m not sure cursive even needs to be taught in schools anymore, other than teaching kids how to sign their names. Clear printing is more important in this day and age IMHO.
We didn’t have “everything soup,” but my mom sometimes made “clean out the icebox” meals. An old phrase from her Elizabeth, NJ upbringing during the Great Depression was a meal of “fried accidents and stewed behabitents” (sp?). Here’s a great 1947 kids’ book about Stone Soup, BTW: https://www.amazon.com/Stone-Soup-Aladdin-Picture-Books/dp/0689711034
I was a reporter and editor for my student newspaper and later a reporter and editorial writer for my local paper, all in the Eighties, and I never saw the word spelled “lede” until the last ten years or so ago.
I’ve been in London three times, twice as a tourist and once for a college semester abroad, and during that semester I had a wonderful long weekend visiting a friend who was studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. That’s the only time I’ve been on the Continent; someday I hope to return and see some more European capitals, especially Rome and Dublin.
I read a lot but haven’t read any of the books on that list. I loves me some Scalzi, though, so I’m sure I’ll read his new book sooner or later. This may also be of interest to you: Your Top Ten books of 2023