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September 2023
Friday Thread: Your Anxiety Dream
I’ve got the usual one — where I’ve enrolled in a class, somehow not attended it for most of the semester, but then have to show up and either t…
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Putting the Garden to Bed
Last year, right around this time, I was struggling to muster the energy to garden. All my annuals were on their last gasp — some were gross and slimy…
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Community Roadblocks
What small changes would make it easier to HANG OUT and DO THINGS?
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Tuesday Thread: What Game Are You Playing?
FALL HERALDS THE RETURN OF GAME TIME. I know I know games are for all times, but the push back indoors (and fewer daylight hours) means MORE TIM…
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“American Motherhood Felt Like That: Like a Plan Devised by Men.”
Touched Out
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Friday Thread: Coolest, Weirdest, Best Hobbies
I live on an island with a lot of retired people and a lot of artists and a lot of people who, for whatever reason (time, space, distance from u…
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"There is no trauma in my garden"
Welcome to this week’s Garden Study Interview! These interviews feature conversations with Garden Study readers like you all about their own gardening…
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How to Kid-Proof Your Friendship
Do you read this newsletter every week? Do you forward it or text it to your friends?? Do you value the work that goes into it??? Consider becoming a…
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Tuesday Thread: A Book That's Changed You
When someone asks “what’s your favorite book” how do you possibly answer? There’s my favorite book from childhood, my favorite book of my teens,…
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The Value of a Polaroid Summer
Last month, when I wrote about the sterile world of infinite choice, a reader named Terryn left a short comment about how she was countering that…
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Friday Thread: *Future* Friday Threads
I come up with a lot of the ideas for Friday threads on dog walks. Or in the shower. Times when my mind wanders and hangs out with itself. I als…
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