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How to Host a 50th Birthday Party for Your Dead Husband with Whom you Have a Complicated Relationship
my relationship with my late husband is always going to be complicated which is why I'll never stop celebrating him and everything else that is also…
Jul 16
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Rebecca Woolf
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it's okay if you're a little bit jealous that all of your friends are on adventures right now
but also... here's a recipe for Vacation eggs.
Jun 23
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Rebecca Woolf
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on burning the dinner... again
or how burning the dinner is never about burning the dinner. and also, Run Lola Run.
Jun 13
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Rebecca Woolf
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on attending the marriage of my friend to herself and the pride and privilege of bearing witness to the awakening of women
what does it look like to create a community of unconditional safety for women? it starts by shamelessly taking up space for yourself
Jun 6
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Rebecca Woolf
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on attending the marriage of my friend to herself and the pride and privilege of bearing witness to the awakening of women
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"I am a collection of dismantled almosts"
on marriage of mother to child, the let-go and other thoughts; one year later
May 29
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Rebecca Woolf
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if we all went back to another time I will love you over
portraits of four different selves from four different audiences in four different decades (Belle and Sebastian, 1999-2024)
May 22
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Rebecca Woolf
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"I am a beautiful thing."
or how I learned to love my forty-something body by posting nudes on the internet
May 7
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Rebecca Woolf
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laura hoenack
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from "pick-me" to misandrist to grown-up
or how I learned to make friends with good men in middle-age.
Apr 19
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Rebecca Woolf
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Baby Had a Fast Car
on teenage freedom and the broken promises of adolescent hope
Mar 26
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Rebecca Woolf
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"War and Noise"
for many writers, the problem isn't that we can't find "peace and quiet," it's that we think that is what we must have in order to write. (we don't.)
Mar 19
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Rebecca Woolf
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Bloom Cycles
on beauty, time, rebellion and home
Mar 3
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Rebecca Woolf
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secret and not-so-secret smokers
I see you, mom in the stop and drop line, not giving a fuck and I salute you with a lighter extended out the sunroof. FREEBIRD!
Feb 10
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Rebecca Woolf
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