Archive - The Next Thing

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

Feb 9

January 2023

A look back at my first year of The Next Thing

Jan 29

November 2022

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

Nov 21, 2022

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.

Oct 3, 2022

March 2022

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

Mar 17, 2022

February 2022

What's happening to Kim Kardashian is nauseatingly common; just ask me; just ask anyone.

Feb 17, 2022

Puppy school, a lovely beach, and wisdom from Bull Durham

Feb 16, 2022

Forecasts of "wintery mix" for the Central Texas region are giving us flashbacks of a very bad week last year. (*North Austin)

Feb 2, 2022

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…

Feb 1, 2022

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…

Jan 26, 2022

The exhausted-social-worker-turned-"Obsessed!"-entertainment-writer, talks about writing, reinvention, and our mutual weird fascination with Pete…

Jan 20, 2022

Why can't life's bummers distribute themselves more evenly?

Jan 17, 2022

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