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The pits, 8/15/22
What, loyal readers of this newsletter may be wondering, was Chelsea even doing in the year between last August and this past July?
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Magical crone transformation, 9/15/22
I have, in the past month, turned 30, and I have to admit that instead of feeling even the tiniest bit of dread, I have been if anything genuinely…
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The Overthinker, 2/14/21
For the past month or so, I've been doing what looks very much from the outside to be nothing.
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That train is looking pretty grimy, 5/15/21
I started reading Anna Karenina out of sheer pique.
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Dead Sea scrolling, 7/15/22
If you're a tourist in Israel, as I was for the past two weeks, you're probably going to spend a fair amount of time at various tourist attractions…
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The Mickey Mouse club can't even handle me right now, 7/26/21
Over shepherd's pie at the Rose & Crown, the ersatz English pub at Epcot, it is impressed on me that every single body of water in Florida might contain…
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Work hard pandemic hard, 4/6/21
For some reason, I am on the board of a nonprofit organization.
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Galaxy brain, 6/6/20
Sometime around last Sunday, all of the personal ambitions I had obsessively been figuring out how to achieve started to seem self-indulgent and…
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Stuff and nonsense, 1/30/20
The beginning of the new year—and a new decade, no less—is a good time to shed one's baggage, which is why I ended up hauling a 63 pound suitcase to…
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Learnèd and afraid, 10/7/19
If you'll recall, I sent my last email the day before my first day of classes.
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My new year's resolution is to stop all the pollution, 1/4/21
At the end of every year since 2015, sometime around Christmas, I type up something I fondly call an "annual plan." Do not mistake this for the actions…
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Talking cure, 3/16/20
Now that the entire world is on lockdown, I've begun to realize that my normal state is a state of quarantine.
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