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The Long Scrawl

LaDonna Witmer

A collection of true stories from an American writer who emigrated to small-town Portugal

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I Am Pretty Much a Witch Now

My home for 12 days

How do I begin to put words to this magic? How do I pin it to a page?

It is not any hocus-pocus mouse-eared trifle. No pixie dust or holly wand. This magic is the deep green hum of a coastal forest, the night wing...

7 days ago
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Write Your Life: June Edition

Heads up for my friends & readers who live in the Lisbon area: I’m going to be back at my favorite bookshop, Salted Books, in two weeks for another round of my Write Your Life workshop! I’d love to see you there.

This writing workshop is a...

16 days ago
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All the Ways a Heart Can Break

(Press play and I’ll read it to you—like, actually me, not an AI bot.)


I have made the mistake, in recent years, of thinking that I know something. Thinking that I’ve gained some wisdom with my decades, some perspective. Thinking I’...

a month ago
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Make This Place Green Again

How about the dopamine of spring? Is this still a thing we can huff
even while we whine to dig a burrow, pull the dirt into our eyes,
stuff la-la fingers in our ears? How about the stars of jasmine, the riot
of poppies, all those mu...

2 months ago
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"Human in the Only Way that Matters"

I’ve been thinking lately about desire paths. About the way that wanting always finds a way. Refuses to conform. Bends between right-angled arms of concrete. Uncivilized. Feral. True.

Desire paths, if you haven’t heard the term before, ar...

2 months ago
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    Professional Word Nerd. Unprofessional Succulent Gardener. Irish Goodbye Enthusiast. Sometime Donkey Rescuer. Longtime Tea Drinker. Foul-Mouthed Heathen. Former Goth Girl. Current Frumpy Person. Aspiring Bog Witch.

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