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The Next Next Thing: The Lady Takes the Cure
In which your correspondent negotiates the post-COVID hellscape of healthcare and gets serious about radical self-care
Oct 21
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Beth Eakman Re
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The Next Next Thing: The Lady Takes the Cure
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August 2023
Yard Sale
On the Utility of Metaphors for Disasters
Aug 3, 2023
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Beth Eakman Re
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February 2023
On the Nature of Understanding
A reminder that we live in the blurry spaces between domestication and chaos
Feb 9, 2023
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Beth Eakman Re
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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
Jan 29, 2023
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Beth Eakman Re
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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...."
Nov 21, 2022
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Beth Eakman Re
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Writing Lessons: The "Lowering Medicine" of Community
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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.
Oct 3, 2022
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Beth Eakman Re
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"Fatuous navel gazing," lowered standards, and the art of the graceful return
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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
Mar 17, 2022
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Beth Eakman Re
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Let go or be dragged: A Zen proverb for March
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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.
Feb 17, 2022
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Beth Eakman Re
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Stalking needs a #MeToo movement
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Old Dog Energy and the Optimism of Puppies
Puppy school, a lovely beach, and wisdom from Bull Durham
Feb 16, 2022
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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)
Feb 2, 2022
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Beth Eakman Re
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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…
Feb 1, 2022
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Ask a Smart Person: An Interview with Melody Warnick
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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…
Jan 26, 2022
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Beth Eakman Re
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Grief Counselors have Arrived and I Can't Focus
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