NAMING BLUE
Dana Ray, Stephanie Duncan SmithMissives on naming the complications we’re asked to leave well-enough alone. Think deeper, feel more. By Dana Ray: writer, idea wrangler, advocate, idealist
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 109 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 13 days ago |
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Tomatoes are Sunshine
Dear Friends,
Robbie gets a septoplasty this week, the same surgery I misery-ed my way through in June. So this is a listy-list of random thoughts that don’t amount to a single post, but instead offer little excerpts of life and thought....
I’m hungry for time that is gone.
Dear Friend,
Time is crushing me with change and passing.
For the first time, I long for an earlier stage of mothering. My child is no longer baby, no trace of her sweet pudge and toddle. She is long and lean, in physique just like my sis...
Letters from me IN THE MAIL
TLDR Housekeeping updates:
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I turned OFF paid subscriptions to NAMING BLUE.
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I am turning ON the option to subscribe to a PRINT version of NAMING BLUE. This $6/mo letter will be 6-8pages of gloriousness. I’m still designing how t...
Postcards from the Road
Dear Friend,
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In April, I lost the infrastructure of my life. Our beloved daycare closed. Was closed. Closed by its parent organization. Without warning.
The news leaked on April 17th. They weren’t going to tell us.
A do...
The Secondary Trauma of Misinformation, n: "incorrect information shared in good faith."
In this letter, I attempt to talk about misinformation [meaning: false information shared in good-faith] in left/progressive storytelling AND the realities of assault on woman. It gets dicey. Care is recommended.
Dear Friend,
I got taken...
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Language strategist. Writer. Opinion holder. Idea wrangler. Tea drinker. Your most assertive friend.
Senior editor at HarperOne, creator of the Slant Letter Substack for writers, and author of Even After Everything: The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risks and Loving Anyway, available now.
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