Write It Like It Is
Deborah Sosin, Adam RobertsEveryday observations and existential musings
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The Xanax Files, Part I
In the summer of 1996, I attempted to withdraw from a very high dose of the popular prescribed benzodiazepine Xanax through a highly regarded, medically supervised taper program. It was not a pretty picture but I learned a lot about myself....
Threshold
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This essay, originally written in 2014, appeared in the online literary magazine The Manifest-Station on May 17, 2018. It’s bittersweet to look back on a time when my nonagenarian parents and their long...
"You're Too Sensitive!"
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When the AQI (air quality index) hit 132 last week (“unhealthy for sensitive groups”), I put a mask on in my car, AC blasting. Still, tight chest, stinging eyes, burning throat.
Driving across town, I noticed...
Deconstructing One 70-Word Micro-Memoir
Readers and interviewers often ask me not just why but how I wrote 70 micro-memoirs of 70 words each for Escape Velocity: How One 70-Year-Old Push-Pulled Her Way Out of Her Too-Much-Not-Enough Family.
In her very generous Amazon review, ma...
Art & Parkinson's: Love Letters from a Caregiver
“Double-Portrait”
You know that feeling when you come upon art that moves, inspires, informs, and elevates so powerfully that your instinctive response is to press your hand to your chest and utter an indistinct syllable like “uhh” or “ohh...
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Deborah Sosin, writer & therapist, has published in the NY Times, Boston Globe, elsewhere. Her set of 70 micro-memoirs, 70 words each, “Escape Velocity: How One 70-Year-Old Push-Pulled Her Way Out of Her Too-Much-Not-Enough Family,” is now available.
Writer, creator. In 2021, I wrote something for my wife, every single day. And now it’s a book. You should get it. \ud83d\ude0a Live shows Fridays @ 12:30pm eastern.
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