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1. for one night only, a pair of stoops
on brief encounters made possible by ghosts, birthdays, dead phones, dead friends and the curse of finding poetry in motherfucking everything
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Horse Girls
a love story
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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.
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Baby Had a Fast Car
on teenage freedom and the broken promises of adolescent hope
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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.)
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