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Letter writing allows me to be a better version of myself — not cleverer, but more honest. That’s the idea that circles in my mind every time I sit down and wonder why the old ways of communication still appeal to me more than the breathless immediacy of the digital world. I’ve thought about finding…
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Photo by Amelia Phoenix Desertsong from April 2023. Edited with Corel Painter 2023 using the Colored Pencil preset, Aged Print AI style.
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There’s a line from Simon & Garfunkel’s 1970 classic “The Only Living Boy in New York” that occasionally thumps me on the forehead like a passive-aggressive post-it note: “I get all the news I need from the weather report.” That’s either poetic detachment or the kind of deadpan wisdom only a man in a corduroy…
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Once Upon a Truth… In the beginning, there was Truth. No questions asked, carved into stone tablets and shouted from mountaintops by bearded men with suspiciously confident eyebrows. You knew where you stood. Reality was what the guy with the staff and the fire-belching bush said it was. These were the good old days, back…
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Photo by Amelia Phoenix Desertsong. Edited with Corel Painter 2023 using the Colored Pencil preset, Aged Print AI style.
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If there’s one literary genre that’s been overfed, underappreciated, and then revived like a phoenix in Doc Martens, it’s dystopian fiction. These tales of ruin, repression, and revolutions have long fascinated readers who suspect that somewhere between Big Brother’s all-seeing gaze and Gilead’s uterus-as-property policy, there’s a mirror held up to our own troubled world.…
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This is the video that finally launched Kate Cassidy past 10K subscribers, and I had a feeling that this was coming. She’s been on a roll with some killer video topics, and this is the one that finally struck a nerve! I’m also so excited about what she’s planning for a new community for Curious…
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Let’s not pretend we live in a rational world. We reside, often too comfortably I might add, in a full-throttle, glitter-drenched Charlatans’ Paradise. Our modern world has become a kingdom ruled by confidence artists in limited-edition sneakers and bespoke suits, armed with buzzwords, ring lights, and disturbingly bright teeth. Our national pastime isn’t baseball anymore;…
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Back when I was offering manuscript editing services, I wrote up 8 tips for writing a great children’s book manuscript. I myself wanted to dabble in the realm of children’s literature, as E.B. White did with Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, and Trumpet of the Swan. However, my own dabbling in fiction has led me to…
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You and I probably each know someone in our lives that embodies the Boss Bitch. We all know one of those, a shimmering capitalist chimera who allegedly “has it all” and reminds the rest of us plebs that we, too, could rise and grind our way into the annals of hashtag empowerment. But that dream…