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Warrior Bunny says The Next Thing was here all along
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The booster, the break-up, and a death in the family
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Writing Lessons: The "Lowering Medicine" of Community
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2022, I mean, okay, I guess?
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Grief Counselors have Arrived and I Can't Focus
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Let go or be dragged: A Zen proverb for March
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Warrior Bunny says The Next Thing was here all along
A look back at my first year of The Next Thing
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Beth Eakman Re
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Writing Lessons: The "Lowering Medicine" of Community
"We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane...."
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Beth Eakman Re
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"Fatuous navel gazing," lowered standards, and the art of the graceful return
I've been gone for a while and now I'm back. That's as graceful as it gets and I'm trying to lower my standards and be okay with that.
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Beth Eakman Re
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Let go or be dragged: A Zen proverb for March
Mixing metaphors, homilies, horoscope advice, and one theorem from statistics
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Beth Eakman Re
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Stalking needs a #MeToo movement
What's happening to Kim Kardashian is nauseatingly common; just ask me; just ask anyone.
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Beth Eakman Re
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Old Dog Energy and the Optimism of Puppies
Puppy school, a lovely beach, and wisdom from Bull Durham
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Beth Eakman Re
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The North* Remembers
Forecasts of "wintery mix" for the Central Texas region are giving us flashbacks of a very bad week last year. (*North Austin)
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Beth Eakman Re
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The Next Thing
Thoughts on recalibrating the ol' life map in the After Times
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