Scott Hines

Jan 14, 2025 | actioncookbook.substack.com | Scott Hines

Teachers deserve our appreciation. That’s something that should both go without saying and be said more often, but either way, it’s true. Teaching is can be a thankless job, one that often takes more than it gives to the overworked, under-compensated people who have dedicated their professional lives to educating our nation’s youth. I believe this fully, but I never believe it more so than after a long break.

Jan 10, 2025 | actioncookbook.substack.com | Scott Hines

Please. Please let this winter break end. It is, as of your reading this, January 10th, 2025. As I write this, my children have not been in school since December 20th, 2024. If my math is correct, that means it has been an entire year since they were last in a classroom. (A month ago, the kids might’ve been able to correct me on that.

Jan 7, 2025 | actioncookbook.substack.com | Scott Hines

Over the weekend, a significant winter storm barrelled through the midsection of the country, leaving a frigid mess of snow and ice from Kansas City to Washington, DC. Here in Louisville, Kentucky, we received more than ten inches of snow, the most from a single storm in nearly ten years. Naturally, local schools were forced to close for multiple days, leaving many parents like myself scrambling for ways to keep their little ones entertained.

Jan 3, 2025 | actioncookbook.substack.com | Scott Hines

Hello, friends. Welcome back to another year of The Action Cookbook Newsletter. I hope that you had a nice holiday break, whether you were able to take time off from work like I did, or simply had fewer people barraging you with emails like I do. It’s a new year, and it’s time for one of my most controversial annual admissions: I love January. It’s quietly in the top half of months in my book, despite the cold and gray of it all1.

Dec 20, 2024 | actioncookbook.substack.com | Scott Hines

Friends, it’s Friday. By now, you surely know the drill—every Friday here on The Action Cookbook Newsletter, I share a slate of Good Things that I think will make your weekend a little bit better—food, drink, entertainment, pets, and so on. In between those Fridays, I share newsletters on a wide range of topics, from food to parenting to sports to… well, whatever goofy stuff is rattling around in my brain.