The Keepthings
Deborah Way, Jen Machajewski, Kasia Nikhamina, Jocelyn Jane Cox, Linda's Reflections, Carson Landolina, Betty-Jo TilleyWhat memento would you keep after the death of someone you love? These are the stories of lost loved ones, inspired by the things they left behind. A new story of love + grief every week, plus occasional subscriber bonus content.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 220 | Subscribers | Read | thekeepthings.substack.com |
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THE AUTOGRAPH BOOK
On one of the pages of my father’s autograph book, a teacher wrote, “Remember you’re from 97,” meaning New York City’s P.S. 97, where my dad—we called him D—attended sixth grade. Inside the front cover, D inscribed a poem from those days, w...
DAD'S BOOK LIST
My dad was a mechanical engineer and quality improvement manager. He carried a briefcase, wore a tie and sometimes used flip charts he let me make. (I was the only kid who knew the phrases “paradigm shift” and “think outside the box.”) He w...
THE PHILODENDRON
My mother did not have a particularly green thumb, but she had a great sense of humor. Near her potted plants, she displayed a framed Earl Engleman cartoon featuring a woman in cat-eye glasses leaning over some fallen flora, asking, “Was it...
WHO ARE YOU MISSING TODAY?
For the past year, in fits and starts, I’ve been sorting through the contents of my basement. Yesterday I found a little trove of correspondence from my dad’s mom, my Nana Pauline—cards and notes she sent when I was in my thirties, living 6...
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Ex-magazine editor, writer, creator/publisher of The Keepthings.
Sensory sensitive. Runs on peanut butter. Flash published in Brevity Blog, Hippocampus, Multiplicity, and 5 Minute Lit.
Kasia Nikhamina is a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction. She is a 2025 Writing Fellow @apublicspace. She also runs Redbeard Bikes, a bike fit studio in DUMBO, Brooklyn, with Ilya, her husband.
Jocelyn Jane Cox holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a former competitive figure skater (for 11 years) and coach (for 20 years) with a memoir coming out in Sept '25.
I am a writer who grew up in a funeral home. I write about my father’s WWII experience as a B17 pilot in the 100th bomb group and stories of faith/life in my memoir Reflections: A Wardrobe of Life Lessons. LindaStylesBerkery.com
San Antonio, TX
Los Angeles-based writer, 5th gen Californian, 37-yr real estate luxury property agent, MFA June '23 UCR Low Residency. Lost home in Jan '25 Pacific Palisades Wildfires. Now living in Atwater Village. Writing: @thekeepthings and @oppositeofnihilism
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