A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price and The World’s Cheapest Destinations. See past editions here, where your like-minded ...

A Cup of Tea Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire ...

The Art of Trolls by Jerry Schmitz Cameron + Company 2016, 160 pages, 11.2 x 0.8 x 10.2 inches, Hardcover ...

After one too many frustrating calls trying to spell out airline confirmation codes (“No, B as in Boy, not D!”), I built this simple web tool. Type in any text and it instantly converts it to NATO ...

If you want to geek out on which countries are serving adventure travelers best, check out the just-released Adventure Tourism Development Index, the first one put together since the pandemic. Among ...

Gar’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales is published by Cool Tools Lab. To receive the newsletter a week early, sign up here. One of the most popular posts I’ve included in Gar’s Tips & Tools is Scott ...

Our subscriber base has grown so much since we first started eight years ago, that most of you have missed all our earliest recommendations. The best of these are still valid and useful, so we’re ...

I am a librarian and aspiring writer. I live in the Rio Grande Valley. For the new year, I will be writing more on my reading life, my writing processes, and the arts I enjoy in my substack. For 2025, ...