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Slips: A Note on 4 Years Sober
It’s all beginnings and endings and sparkle and shadows around here.
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Back to the Beginning
What do you do with the short straw?
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Nebraska Triptych
Painted walls, a humid summer, and then a fridge floats by.
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Time Travel
In the sour mess, we are in touch with it.
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Vitamins
Dirty nailbeds and playing outside.
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Curating
The diaries wanted to be encased in Jell-O. They wanted to be sliced up and turned into paper chains, so they could wrap themselves around a banister for an entire holiday season. They never wanted to stay flat. They wanted to do something else, be something else, before I threw them away in my 20s. …
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An Ode to “Angel” and Taking Laughter Seriously
The sunshine is welcome if it decides to visit.
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WFH
I don’t know what our home must look like from other people’s basement windows.
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Dust
The clock sprung forward and out of my hands.
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Doors
Space, not time, pulls a trick on me.
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Something Social
Don’t let the bullies separate you.
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The Sum of the Parts
Because I want to get my hands moving this Sunday morning.
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Iconoclasm
There’s something of style and the soul caught up here.
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Relative Weakness
Maybe there’s something bigger that becomes possible next.
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Between the Notes
After many minutes I couldn’t grab onto the sound inside the music.
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None of This Is News
The week I got an ADHD diagnosis, I closed the garage door on my car.
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Arrows, Poets, and Things that Point
The choices we make are only one choice.
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Big, Dumb Goals
Just casually questioning my life and my choices in 700 words or less.
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No Obvious Cause
On walking the aisles of the past.
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Yours and Mine
Squint, and you can make me meet in the middle.
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What I Talk about When I Talk about Garage Sales
It all has a cost, a weight.
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Now What?
The good news is, there’s always something else to work on. That bad news is, there’s always something else to work on.
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How It Ends
We might not leave on our own terms.
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August
Milestones, anniversaries, and all time is relative.
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Skin-Deep
Be careful what you wish for.
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And Other Animal Tricks
What do the jellies know?
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Anxiety Dreams
The projects that scare me and the ones that apparently don’t.
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It’s Not My Money
An inheritance, a windfall, and going farther than you could imagine.
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Revisiting My Word of the Year (and Some Important Three-Letter Words)
On things for their own sake.
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It’s Bullshit My Mom Died
A grabby headline for some real feelings.
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Why, yes, I have lost weight.
Just checking in.
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I’m Allowed to Change My Mind: Four Months into Training
I’m adding new pieces into my training.
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Three Months In
No promises to break—just new things to try.
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A Break from What?
On wonky weeks and sneaky snow days.
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Celebrating Me
Bring on 35.
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We’re 2 Months In!
What’s it mean to be a “real runner”?
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2023 Wrap-Up Recs
The best books, tech, and tools from my year.
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Word of the Year
Where are you headed in 2024?
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A Half-Marathon Update that’s Not about the Half-Marathon
On my body’s journey, my brain and baggage are along for the ride!
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I Am Two Years Sober
Content warning: depression, alcohol use.
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My Stretchy November Project
Sharing my first monthly update since I decided to do a half-marathon.
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Want to Join the Club?
So many have been talking to me about their craving for structure and accountability.
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How I Did the Thing: Work Edition
A messy look back at a messy process.
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It’s a Half-Marathon, Charlie Brown!
This missive includes an invitation.
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I Don’t Live There Anymore
Doesn’t mean I can’t go back.
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RIP, Matthew Perry
May his memory be a blessing.
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What a Difference a Year Makes
Content warning: depression.
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Just a Few Words Away
Ever write just to scratch an itch?
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The Limitations of Being Judgy
… and why I love revision.
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When Hiding Sounds Good
There’s a relationship between risk and reward, vulnerability and intimacy.
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“The Thing I Didn’t Want to Write…”
Am I avoiding a task or an emotion?
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Why I’m Glad I Write
Some reflections for the graduates of 2023.
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Not Gettin’ Any Younger Here!
But we’re not exactly getting older, either.
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Making a U-Turn
Happens in traffic, happens in life.
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New Moon
Darkness can show us things, too.
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The Plan Until It Isn’t
Parenting wisdom applies widely.
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Let’s Play
Take a tumble with words.
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Begin with the End in Mind?
You are the author of life’s Mad Lib.
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No Guilty Pleasures
Life’s long enough—but too short for this nonsense.
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My Favorite Two-Faced God
His domain is delightful and timely.
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People Are Fascinating
You just have to listen.
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On Roots and Wings
What do we inherit, and where are we going?
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Life in Slow-Mo
Winter is not a speedy experience.
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Begin as if You Mean to Go On
We decide to be ready enough.
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A Little Light
A note on the sun’s journey and ours.
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What’s in a Gift?
Relationships are stories.
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Audience of One
Forget about everybody else.
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One Foot in Front of the Other
I’m noticing how much my feet have to do with things.
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Not Too Precious
We harvest not to keep but to nourish.
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Water in the Well
Sometimes my writing practice helps me come back to the present moment.
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Gingko Wisdom
Where’s the gift in this?
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On Getting Lost
Getting lost isn’t the same as being lost.
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Make the Details Count
“Give things the dignity of their names.”
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Get Yourself Some Now Today!
Sometimes my writing practice helps me come back to the present moment.
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Sober October
How I got a little more of everything by choosing life “without.”
Caitie Leibman (she/her)
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Caitie Leibman (she/her) 