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How to Not Die of Despair
for writers, for everybody
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you can't wear 100 purses at once
a poem on friendship & its impossible questions
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We House Worlds
why use a butcher knife when we could gather bouquets instead?
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I Am Not a Genre
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Loving This Much is Scary As Sheol
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The Upshot of Being Small Potatoes
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I Send My Kids to Daycare
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People-Pleasing, Navel-Gazing, and Other Forms of Self Torture
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Baked Bean Suppers & Phones on the Wall
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Sorry, You Can't Monetize That
on staying curious & creative (when you need to also get paid)
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Colder Weather
on late August smoke & flinging off New England sensibilities
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I Half-Believed
conversations with Abraham beneath the Perseids
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Hello, August
you are a second chance
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In Defense of the Boring Days
A few nights ago, I said something I shouldn’t have. My husband and I had just put the kids to bed, and we were doing our nightly routine of scraping…
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An Exclusive Garden Poetry Reading
join me in my flower garden for an entire reading of "The Shape I Take"
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Let's Cut to the Chase & Be Friends
a revolutionary way to approach grownup friendship
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The Second Cup
The Second Cup
Making peace with being human.
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