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Tripping the light fantastic.
My father was an auto mechanic. He was complex in character but simple in palette. His favorite meal was a plate of shrimp, extra delight if served three ways: fried, grilled and scampied. I’m using...
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Reinvention Ascension #53
My old journals tell me everything I need to know. Sure, birthdays should be a time of reflection, but my birthday journal entries of the past remind me of that movie trope when the boss pokes her...
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Eight ways from Sunday.
I just returned from a ten day roadtrip across ‘Merica. We explored Little Rock, Memphis, Blackfalls State Park in West Virginia (and so many tiny hill-nestled towns) and finally, Pittsburg. Many hikes...
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Anything but this.
If you ask me how I’m doing right now, I’m going to say I’m busy.Yeah, I’m suspicious of that word as much as the next person but with a thousand photos to edit from two back-to-back weddings, a few...
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She's dying to meet you.
My kids and I standing in Yayio Kusama’s Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity at the Museum of fine arts in houston a few weeks ago. She looks like me, only smaller. Not dark and foreboding as a...
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20 year old Sondra would be so annoyed with me rn.
My kitty also enjoying the pace. I worked as a waitress and bartender from age 18 through most of my 30s, even returning for a brief stint in my early 40s. We may be born slow and methodical, but...
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This is no ordinary love.
Fridays are terrible days to send out a newsletter, statistically speaking. But I woke up this morning with the oh so familiar February longing in my chest that I had to finally capture it, so here is...
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Are you opting in?
The sound of the shower turning on. A nose blown. The smell of Old Spice and Listerine. Daylight not yet. These things ping my senses, some real, some imagined in my fevered delusion. I wake up for a...
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This is a letter about books.
I am a creature of habit. You may be surprised by that, considering all of the turbans I wear. But I swear it’s true. I get up at 5am every morning. While a pot of coffee is brewing, I look over my...
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The Middle-Age Gaze
As my personal new year approaches, I’m reminded how grateful I am to have a June birthday. Seasonally, I’m peak-idea manifestor. In January, the traditional NY, my ideas are soft, sleepy and slow,...
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1 800 CLAPPER
“I’ve been thinking a lot about mobility” is a helluva accurate way to say you’re over 50 without saying you’re over 50.I was around a lot of family members with mobility issues this week. Some of...
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Gimme some of that average life (said no one evr)
It’s hard not to expect that life should be a series of fair and compensatory transactions. There’s an entire wall in every bookstore, enough podcasts to cover a coast-to-coast roadtrip and 1000s of...
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The Anti-Manifest Agenda
If you’ve overcome something hard, if you’ve transformed self-harm to self-care, if you meditate every morning, say your prayers every evening, confess to therapists and friends on the reg and you...
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Nothing left to lose.
I’m unsure when exactly I accepted this story as truth. Maybe it was sitting in church pews for the entirety of my youth and observing this: Some folks were born with the singing voices of angels, but...
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Well that’s good to know.
“Where does it hurt?”That’s the question Civil Rights legend, Ruby Sales, began asking at the beginning of her activism. She talks about this at length on an On Being episode with Krista Tippett, a...
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9 Years.
I intentionally saved Monday’s newsletter for today, 7.13. It’s a special day for me and I always acknowledge it with some words of reflection, so thank you for accepting this special edition. Today...
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Are you bothered?
Are you finding it hard to concentrate on your creative work right now? I don’t know about you, but every night I lay down at 9pm with a light read because I’m practicing good sleep hygiene, by 9:05...
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It’s like that but better.
I spent the entire cash option jackpot for last Wednesday’s billion dollar Powerball in my head as soon as I purchased the ticket: Trusts for all of my family members, a few financial and real estate...
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The audacity of a woman who wants.
The audacity of a woman who wants to be loved, wants to be angry, wants attention, wants to be left alone, wants space, wants a voice, wants support, wants freedom, wants help, wants autonomy, wants a...
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It found me: putting a bow on 2023
I promise that this isn’t going to be one of those year-end lists that opens with false humility like “Oh, perhaps a few good things happened,” then goes onto regale you with one thing after amazing...
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