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Last night it was raining when we landed in Park City. I knew Utah was beautiful in August, but I forgot it was quiet: when you’re tucked in and very c…
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by Cecily Brown I learned what it means to be a woman from perfume ads in Vogue and Madame Bovary. I watched children’s TV shows until I was a teenager…
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by Peter Sacks (love you Mina!) I get asked more about sharing my life than anything else. As in: how do I share more of myself online? How do I feel c…
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from Knots by R.D. Laing Two of my knots: Years ago I had an episode of magical thinking that took the form of love—basically, it was the belief that a…
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Sometimes people meet me in real life after only reading my Substack and say, “You’re different from what I expected.” Similarly, longtime friends will…
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by Jadé Fadojutimi It’s hard to be disagreeable. It’s especially difficult if you’re socially conditioned from a young age to be likable and accommodat…
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by Georgia O’Keeffe Yesterday I snapped at my puppy. He was having a wild case of the zoomies in the backyard and trying to rip my favorite sweatshirt …
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by Manet Years ago I had a good friend who always had crushes on unavailable women. Specifically, unavailable in this tantalizing way where they seemed…
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The Kitchen Table by Paul Cezanne From What I Loved: “That’s the problem with seeing things. Nothing is clear. Feelings, ideas shape what’s in front of…
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A few years ago I wanted very much for someone to take me under their wing. There was a lot of uncertainty in my life. I wanted to someone to help me d…
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From 2015, when I was visiting Japan: Why find yourself when you can lose yourself? I’m in a cramped room in Itabashi, squeezed into the middle of thre…
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by Georgia O’Keeffe I was thinking about a word for the opposite of nostalgia, by which I mean a memory of the past that evokes unmixed joy instead of …
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