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My new post is about love, loneliness and the shame we can feel at this belief that somehow we’re doing love wrong – that we don’t ‘get’ it, that we missed a memo somewhere along the line. It’s about feeling as though you have ‘failed at love’.
A reader told me this week that “Your politics are a bit too loud right now. Wish we could stay focused on shared faith.”
In case you need a response when people tell you to be quiet or stay in your lane (especially nice Christian folks), I thought I’d share my response so you could tuck it in your back pocket.
“I'm glad the internet is vast and wide so that you can find other places to nurture you. It's crystal clear to me that right now is a time of widespread injustice that calls for people of…
I won’t buy anything today, but that includes the bullshit the “founder” of the economic blackout is selling.
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Kanab always takes hold of our hearts. Now we are on to different places and different faces.
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Instant regrets about sharing too much personal info (and for free! But I didn’t want to charge on economic blackout day.)
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Hard to overstate just how much I needed to hear this:
Excellent and informative article whether you learned on the blackout yesterday (like me) or when it was first announced.
And at the end, there are specific suggestions for what you can do so that this no-spend day actually makes a difference and more impactful places to give your money to create change than this one-man show.
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Absolutely love this by – a brave and nuanced view of friendship in general and also specifically within the writing community. I’ll never forget when a very old friend of mine got in touch after disappearing for about 10 years… to ask if I’d “skim an eye over their debut novel”. Um, no? This piece aptly sums up the disappointment and w…
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How convenient that we had a live scheduled with so we could talk about that disastrous meeting right away.
Reporting from the blackout that when I tried to take out cash to pair for my haircut (local business!), the atm gave me $200 all in…five dollar bills. 😂
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This is an excellent guide with a couple of stellar resources for talking to kids about drug use. Everyone with a teen should read and bookmark it. Thanks for putting this together !
How to brainwash your mind in next 7 days:
Wake up and don't look at your phone for 1 hour.
Drink 3 litres of water every day.
Do your most important task in the morning.
Exercise at least 1 hour per day.
Replace social media with knowledge books.
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I feel physically sickened watching Trump and Vance bullying a true hero like that. This feels like a very bleak day. And I feel so much anger. The moral tenor of American leadership today is so very very bleak.
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It appears that yes, we are going to continue to ignore the trafficking of children. Both in the US and in Ukraine.
Write when you’re emotional. Edit when you’re not.