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Oranges at the door.
Reminder: You - yes you - are a radiant fucking miracle. Now eat your oranges.
 • Jean Shields Fleming
Voices Carry
Lori Hunt takes a long, strange trip into her own midlife heart, with a little help from the Nail Guru (and a mud brown shot of ayahuasca).
 • Lori Hunt
The Nomad & the Many Moons
Guest author Patricia Henley has lived around, yet only recalls a paltry few of the beautiful moons in her life. That's gonna change.
 • Patricia Henley
A Place for Everything
In a world that worships death cleaning and minimalism, guest author Karen Kemp makes the case for mess - and for the unexpected intimacy it brings with…
 • Karen Kemp
Along Comes Chappie
A starving little stray showed up at our door in Greece and decided he was family. Meet Chappie, the determined kitten who climbed his way from the…
 • Jean Shields Fleming
The Fantastical, Aggravating Life of Doña Pola
Guest author M. Guerra recalls the long, strange life of Doña Pola, who cleaned her grandparents' house, took the coyote cure, and followed a faith…
Time Traveling
This week's newsletter features a bus trip between scam and kindness, a time travelogue back to misspent youth (so fun!), and a poem that takes us into…
 • Jean Shields Fleming
Three New Orleans Stories
Leah Mueller regales us with tales of her misspent (well spent?) youth in the Big Easy, with its ankle lovers, skinflints, and a mediocre poet who got…
 • Leah Mueller
It's witch o'clock somewhere.
This Halloween, we're celebrating all the women who know their power. That's us, btw.
 • Jean Shields Fleming
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