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(Not) Reading More
It’s July! July is usually my favorite month. I swear, that’s not just because it’s my birthday month, though that helps. It’s also usually vacation month, and the days are long and warm and sunny. Summer is definitely my season, and this July I have three separate trips planned! Okay, one is for work, but…
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Capitalism is Weird (No Duh)
March was a long and weird month for me: I changed jobs, took a week off, took a 48-hour trip to Texas for a wedding, and wrote 10,000 words of a new project. Plus the weather was nuts. Now here we are in April and it’s finally spring. The weather is still a little nuts,…
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Something I’m Good At, Something I’m Bad At
We have somehow defeated February — the shortest, but somehow also usually the worst, month. Slowly but surely, the days are getting longer again, and soon we’ll change the clocks and then hopefully I can resume being a functional human, after a long, extra-snowy winter. Where I’m At I’m at the beginning of a new…
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Learning Things is Fun, Actually
January is finally over, after what felt like about five years. It was a long slog of a month with horrific news throughout, brightened only by incredible communities taking action to protect themselves and their neighbors. (If you are able to, please stand with Minnesota; if you’re in the US, you can also look for…
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Looking back, and gentle goals
New year, new me? Absolutely not. New year, new format for newsletters with the hope of maybe sending them out more often? Sure! (With a lot of thanks to my BFF Jess who encouraged me, whose format I am more or less stealing, and whose newsletter you should read.) Where I’m At Well, it’s January.…
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Teenage Passion Projects
I can’t stop thinking about Audra Winter. My BFF Jess was the first person who told me about her and since then I’ve watched… a few reactions. To say the least. For those who aren’t in online book spaces that have become obsessed with this, the short version is: Audra Winter is a 22-year-old indie…
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On writing as play, 2024 wins, and 2025 goals
It’s that time! The one time a year I reliably send a newsletter or write a blog post, to update with what all I did last year. Here’s an archive of word counts from the last, gosh, decade. I’ve focused less on word count stats in recent years, though — I know I consistently draft…
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Anxiety and Coping
It has been a long time. I started writing a newsletter many months ago and then couldn’t get it exactly perfect, let that be the enemy of the good, threw a temper tantrum about it, and never logged in here again. I am a mature grown up. Anyway, now I’m emailing you about coping. You…