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Warrior Bunny says The Next Thing was here all along
A look back at my first year of The Next Thing
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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?
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Writing Lessons: The "Lowering Medicine" of Community
"We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane...."
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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
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2022, I mean, okay, I guess?
Walk in a straight line, sit quietly, and don't touch anything as New Years' intentions
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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…
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Let go or be dragged: A Zen proverb for March
Mixing metaphors, homilies, horoscope advice, and one theorem from statistics
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Yard Sale
On the Utility of Metaphors for Disasters
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Backstory: The Before Times
The great pandemic, the great resignation, and grated orange cheese
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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.
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Stalking needs a #MeToo movement
What's happening to Kim Kardashian is nauseatingly common; just ask me; just ask anyone.
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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
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