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On the Nature of Understanding
A reminder that we live in the blurry spaces between domestication and chaos
Beth Eakman Re
Feb 9
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January 2023
Warrior Bunny says The Next Thing was here all along
A look back at my first year of The Next Thing
Beth Eakman Re
Jan 29
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November 2022
Writing Lessons: The "Lowering Medicine" of Community
"We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane...."
Beth Eakman Re
Nov 21, 2022
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October 2022
"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.
Beth Eakman Re
Oct 3, 2022
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March 2022
Let go or be dragged: A Zen proverb for March
Mixing metaphors, homilies, horoscope advice, and one theorem from statistics
Beth Eakman Re
Mar 17, 2022
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February 2022
Stalking needs a #MeToo movement
What's happening to Kim Kardashian is nauseatingly common; just ask me; just ask anyone.
Beth Eakman Re
Feb 17, 2022
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Old Dog Energy and the Optimism of Puppies
Puppy school, a lovely beach, and wisdom from Bull Durham
Beth Eakman Re
Feb 16, 2022
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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)
Beth Eakman Re
Feb 2, 2022
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Ask a Smart Person: An Interview with Melody Warnick
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…
Beth Eakman Re
Feb 1, 2022
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January 2022
Grief Counselors have Arrived and I Can't Focus
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…
Beth Eakman Re
Jan 26, 2022
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Ask a Smart Person: An Interview with Entertainment Writer Bex Sinden
The exhausted-social-worker-turned-"Obsessed!"-entertainment-writer, talks about writing, reinvention, and our mutual weird fascination with Pete…
Beth Eakman Re
Jan 20, 2022
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The booster, the break-up, and a death in the family
Why can't life's bummers distribute themselves more evenly?
Beth Eakman Re
Jan 17, 2022
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