A reminder that we live in the blurry spaces between domestication and chaos
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January 2023

A look back at my first year of The Next Thing
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November 2022

"We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane...."
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October 2022

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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March 2022

Mixing metaphors, homilies, horoscope advice, and one theorem from statistics
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February 2022

What's happening to Kim Kardashian is nauseatingly common; just ask me; just ask anyone.
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Puppy school, a lovely beach, and wisdom from Bull Durham
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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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Talking about loving where you live, making friends as adults, and the motivational power of misery with the person who literally wrote the book on the…
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January 2022

On the word "cremains," lumpy timing, my mind's tendency to wander, and a couple of puppies currently raging through the front hallway with what may be…
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The exhausted-social-worker-turned-"Obsessed!"-entertainment-writer, talks about writing, reinvention, and our mutual weird fascination with Pete…
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Why can't life's bummers distribute themselves more evenly?
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