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The Big, Beautiful, Bursting Blue Bonanza
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I wasn’t going to post a midterms-related Substack. I’m not a pundit nor a journalist. I have no manifest wisdom about what we just witnessed and I’m no match for all the astounding writers and thinkers out...
“The Game Changer”
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I love baseball. Recently, I caught a Red Sox retrospective on TV, including some footage of Jim Rice, a Red Sox star in the 1980s. I flashed on this essay, which I wrote in 2008 in a GrubStreet class cal...
I’ve Been Meditating for 54 Years
Illustration by Sara Gómez Woolley from Charlotte and the Quiet Place (Parallax Press, 2015)
I visited my favorite tree at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge this week. My blood pressure dropped. My mind calmed. I pictured my characters Char...
Enough with the Scammy, Spammy Author Solicitations
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Oh, the flattery! The slick appeals and sophisticated insights bursting with superlatives! Every day, sometimes multiple times a day, I receive letters from people (or are they?) who say they want to mar...
Random Rants & Ramblings
One in an occasional series of reflections about quotidian (and not-so-quotidian) matters of our times. Add your own in the comments!
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I’ve had it with those #*%^! six-digit verification codes. I get it. They’re to prot...
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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.
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