Suddenly, it feels like the tail-end of summer. Where I live, that makes folks scramble.
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Rebel Rebel
Sometimes the support we need is a soundtrack. It felt important to me, as a parent, to play my daughter songs that evoked the bigness of the world and revealed a number of ways to be in it.
Power of the Badge
Having a cop in the family can reveal new dimensions of complexity, pitting family notions of justice against institutional notions of the same.
For the Love of Food and Family
Jaya Saxena answers the Longreads Questionnaire.
The Store Is Always Open
“The brightness is the same at 8 in the morning and 11 at night.”
Pass It On
“I want something that feels a little out-of-step, a little outside of the tumultuous present.”
Curiosity FTW
Stay open to the obvious, and you may just learn more than you expect.
Writing Through It (and the Week’s Top 5)
“I don’t get creatively unstuck. I just write despite the fact that I’m stuck. I learned a long time ago that being ‘stuck’ is really just the unshakable belief that everything you can think of writing is shit, and while that may be true, it might also not be, and the biggest predictor of whether […]
