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Joan Didion just made me cry…
...but the good, glorious, robust tears of being seen and heard. Yes, I just burst into tears over my coffee. From The Year of Magical Thinking, her collection of essays about the horrible time in which she lost both her husband and her daughter: Only the survivors of a death
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De-billionaire'zing and talking to Princess
Almost done with my departure from the wild world of White Men with Too Much Money and Power. Trying to spend my money and time wisely. The space I inhabit and the energy I exchange is my own power, and all I can do on the side of good is
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Rich Food for Raptors
⚠️Warning: Minor spoilers for the Showtime series Yellowjackets. First, thank you to the wonderful Nicole at the Chasing Justice podcast, whom I am proud to call a long-distance friend, and who helped to break the Bill Cosby case and bring it to the public, for sending new subscribers to
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Recent Reviews: Horror Movies and Documentaries 2025
That's all I have been watching this year. Okay, I admit it, that's all I usually watch. Horror and true, almost always dark, stories of human behavior. Gloomy input for my Emily the Strange sensibilities. One of the several reasons I obtained psychology and counseling degrees,
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Doc Review: Meeting the Man: James Baldwin
Amateur music and narration; such a waste for such a genius—and so short! The camera should have just been turned on Baldwin. Coded racism from the interviewer, referring several times in as many minutes to Baldwin’s disagreeing with him as hostility. Still giving it five stars because it’
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As I settle in to my new host, Ghost, and upload all the episode transcripts for paid members, and try to celebrate my upcoming birthday, and deal with everything that has been on my plate that yes, I am going to share with you, I am offering two coupons for
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Respond to cruelty as a witness to beauty
Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a world to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and light…beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous, as careless and spontaneous as the
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My mom and the Lynchian universe
They crossed paths by the sea, Shag and she
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A Cozy Saturday with John Cheever Himself
Take a break and enjoy his own reading of his story "The Swimmer"
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[Ad-free Episode]: Victorian Christmas: Rock of Ages, Haunt for Me: 94
W. W. Fenn
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Episode 94: Victorian Christmas: Rock of Ages, Haunt for Me
Source: Strange Stories of Ghosts and Coincidence, ed. Arthur Conan Doyle archive.org/details/doyle-arthur-conan-et-al.-strange-stories-of-coincidence-and-ghostly-adventure-george-redway-1891 Contents: isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?369419 Alternative source: Doyle, Arthur Conan; Scott, Sir Walter. The Valancourt Book of Victorian