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Day 1,879: Win my Book!
So Nothing Good Can Come from This is out there in the world now, in paperback, e-book, and audio formats. It’s been out for a week, and I feel like kind of a dick for not posting here sooner, but it...
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Day 1,917: Not All Rowboats & Accordians
Last week I was seated at a dinner next to a woman who’s writing a recovery memoir. When she found out I’m a published memoirist, she had questions about how I’d structured my book to make publishers...
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The asterisk above is because after I labeled my last one Day 1,917, Belle commented that she had it as 1,931. She’s way more likely to be right than I am, so I’m adjusting. It’s actually the second...
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Day 2,191: Scrapping & Yelling & Mixing It Up
[First, a quick announcement that I have an essay called “Yes, And” forthcoming from Amazon Original Stories on July 30th, and you can pre-order it here for just $1.99! This is a long, meaty piece...
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Day 2,414: A Moment of Monstrous Grace
I laughed yesterday at the start of this otherwise long, dark chat with a friend freaking out over, you know, the possibly post-Constitutional state the United States is entering. ‘Don’t drink’ was...
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Day 2,557: Happy (Is Happy Still a Thing?) 7th Soberversary to Me
Heyyyyyy party people! It’s been a few months. Is everyone having an awesome summer?!?!It’s funny because it’s sad. Ha! Ha! I generally try to write some words of reflection or wisdom on my...
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Day 2,600: An Asterisk by my Name
Elijah Muhammad with Malcolm X. No, it’s not random. Patience! Read the post! (Also: isn’t Malcolm so handsome?) At some point in this pandemic I lost the ability to carry anything lightly. It’s never...
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Day 2,874: Warrior Necklace
A prefatory note: This post is not about my sobriety, though it was written in sobriety. I’ve been sober for almost eight years now, and I don’t have brand-new things to say about it as often as I...
View ArticleDay 2,898: Rat Pellets, Pizza Grease and Great Men
Aimee Mann is, of course, second to none in the Deadpan Kiss-Off genre. But for me, this somber ballad from Welcome Home delivers a much more devastating blow in its recognition that when two people...
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Day 2,920: Events in the History of Female Employment; or, a Book Update
This counts as a messy desk for me, believe it or not. I’m slightly stressed just looking at it now. I’m nearly finished with the draft of my next book, a memoir about the twelve years I worked for...
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