Today, on Using Other’s People’s Writing to Stand in for my Own, or, Live Every Day like you’re in a really good Sophomore English Class: I’m finally reading The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s memoir about …
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Martha
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and then a hero comes alongggggggg
Today, on Heroes in pearls, Mona Charen: I can’t say that I knew anything about this woman before she made news for speaking out against Trump at the CPAC, and also, I can’t say that I …
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COCO!
Say, do you like it when your heart is as warm and soft as a snickerdoodle just out of the oven? ME TOO. This beautiful and charming Pixar/Disney movie about the Day of the Dead …
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this is Dance
Say Bekah, what have you been doing with whatever resembles your free time? I’ve been spending most to all of it getting deep into the world of disability: its politics, its history, its beauty. A …
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clothes as memory
I dressed myself this morning, like you do, and as I drove to work, I reflected on the layers that I had decided to put on myself, both literally and figuratively. I’m sporting a jacket …
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WHERE TO GIVE YOUR MONEY (TO)
Today, on what to do with that pesky extra ten bucks lurking around your life (if it exists): There are a gazillion different campaigns right now — on Venmo, Gofund me, the Cash App — …
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t’aint always easy
Almost 14 years ago, I carefully glued all of my grad school rejection letters into a scrapbook, and amused myself by highlighting the word ‘regret’ in all of them. I think I sensed that someday, …
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Best 81!
New Year’s Day is for promises, but first: New Year’s Eve is for reflecting Back. Once again, people are posting their Best 9, 9 pictures that sum up a year of life lived. BUT WHO …
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CHRISTMAS LIST, UNLOCKED
OH HI, are you taking a moment away from your family, be they great, to retreat into the calm of internet, which is to say, take a contemporary deep breath? WELCOME! Don’t forget to also …
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Vanity
“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition– all such distortions within our own egos– …