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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Teaching: It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Education, especially higher ed, was supposed to be recession-proof. Apparently, it wasn't global pandemic-proof.
Beth Eakman Re
Jan 14
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Reusing, repurposing, and redecorating
In which I discuss home decor and how I came to possess Val Kilmer's prop penis
Beth Eakman Re
Jan 9
7
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Weekly Round-up
Some backstory, a cranky admission that 2022 is here whether I like it or not, wit and wisdom from Spike Gillespie, and a list of creature comforts…
Beth Eakman Re
Jan 7
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The List: 5 Tiny Pleasures
A weekly round-up of things I like. I don't make money from any of these and I'm not the boss of you, but I've added links in case you want to check…
Beth Eakman Re
Jan 7
2
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