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Good morning! Today is Wednesday, June 15, 2022. You’re reading The Charlotte Ledger, an e-newsletter with local business-y news and insights for Charlotte, N.C. This post is sent to paying subscribers only. FILE PHOTO: A girl glides down the zipline at Camp Thunderbird in this Ledger file photo taken in 2016. The popular daytime and sleep-away summer camp on the shores of Lake Wylie just south of Charlotte hosts hundreds of campers per week.

I read a really interesting piece on how much authors make and why it’s a terrible time to be trying to survive on royalties alone and planned to share it in This Week’s Miscellany but my thoughts ran so long that I decided to make it the beginning of a series for my generous paid subscribers. Upgrade to Paid As a published author and now a full-time editor, I get emails or DMs come in every week asking me how to get started with a writing career, how to get a book published, and how to make an income as an author.

We use screen time very sparingly (i.e. for a few minutes while I’m cooking if I can’t engage him in independent play at that moment and it isn’t something with which I can safely involve him; and never replacing real-life interaction), but when we do use it we choose Ms. Rachel. Not because I think my son learns from it directly (he may or may not), but because *my* listening to it- and interacting with it to the extent I’m able in the situation- helps me to learn and internalize the strategies she employs and use them more often and more effectively every day.

I knew there were good reasons I didn't like Conor McGregor - and more than just his smarmy, sneering mug leering at people in newspapers. Good take-down, Eugene, and if you're gonna take on those guys at his gym, I give you the same advice I gave my son: "Make sure you got someone to watch your back, and I'll bail you out." ;) Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZminoJq7b7%2FUm6qtmZOge6S7zGinrppfmsKosc2eqqunkp67tLvNaKdom5GjeqS7zaipZqWTnL%2Bms86rZKuZoJp6tbTEZp6asV2WxKLFnq6rppejpMKzr8R2p6irpFuwsLnMnqWtq22pv7axha6rppedmrGqwcx2rp6a

Welcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re interested in taking this journey with me, make sure you subscribe so you never miss a review. If you want to make sure I review any specific bagels (or want to let me know why I’m wrong), you can email me at seanmatthewkeeley@gmail.com. UPDATE: Little Market has closed. 😢 ORIGINAL: My plan for the next bagel review was to visit Muriel's in Seward Park, which I’d heard some good things about.

Welcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re interested in taking this journey with me, make sure you subscribe so you never miss a review. If you want to make sure I review any specific bagels (or want to let me know why I’m wrong), you can email me at seanmatthewkeeley@gmail.com. Capitol Hill. Ballard. Pioneer Square. Georgetown. West Seattle. Beacon Hill.

Welcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re interested in taking this journey with me, make sure you subscribe so you never miss a review. If you want to ensure I review any specific bagels (or want to let me know why I’m wrong), you can email me at seanmatthewkeeley@gmail.com. When I started investigating the bagel shops that I would need to visit for this newsletter, I was surprised to see so many “Best Bagels in Seattle” lists including Whidbey Island Bagel Factory.

Welcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re interested in taking this journey with me, make sure you subscribe so you never miss a review. If you want to make sure I review any specific bagels (or want to let me know why I’m wrong), you can email me at seanmatthewkeeley@gmail.com. The bad news when you run a newsletter that provides weekly reviews of Seattle-area bagels is that eventually, you start to run out of Seattle-based bagel purveyors.

Welcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re interested in taking this journey with me, make sure you subscribe so you never miss a review. If you want to ensure I review any specific bagels (or want to let me know why I’m wrong), you can email me at seanmatthewkeeley@gmail.com. I have literally never waited longer for a bagel in my entire life than I have for Howdy Bagel.