A generally accepted origin story of the eastern coyote is the smaller western coyote moved east and interbred with wolves and dogs along the way. Coyotes got larger and more wolflike. While this resulted in a different coyote, The Conversation explains: there is no sign that they are still actively mating with dogs or wolves. The coyote, wolf and dog are three separate species that would very much prefer not to breed with each other.

I appreciate everyone here letting me pop into their inboxes, especially all the paid subscribers offering their direct support. But lately, I have been letting you all down with the infrequency of my posts, so I have paused billing. You can still expect recipes from me (I can’t promise how often), and they’ll now be free to everyone. I want to be totally honest with you all, my relationship with food is currently not in a good place.

Samuel Larsen is a musician, singer-songwriter, actor, and model, best known for his work on Glee. Recently, on social media, he’s been sharing openly about his sobriety journey, which spawned an idea in my mind to get him on here to talk about it. Samuel and I discuss fame - having it, losing it, and getting smack-down humbled, as well as drinking problems, love and sex addiction, dating, and a whole lot of recovery.

By Howard Wolinsky The Washington Post confirmed Saturday that famed uropathologist Jonathan Epstein, MD, is moving on from his long-time home at Johns Hopkins University following a controversy over bullying allegations. Epstein told the Post he could no longer work with colleagues who accused him wrongly of misconduct. Some colleagues claimed Epstein had bullied them and leaned on them to support opinions rendered by Epstein’s wife Hillary, a pathologist at another institution.

I. Throughout my entire life, I have only ever had one true ambition: From the age of five, I told anyone who would listen that I wanted to be a teacher. For several years of my childhood, I was the kid who came home from “real” school only to play “pretend” school—essentially regurgitating everything I learned that day, with the aid of a small chalkboard, to my invisible students. Teaching always felt like an important job to me, and even as a child, I always felt like I should be doing important work.