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My 2018 summed up in two words: Unrealistic expectations
I learned that my expectations of myself and of those around me are often sadly misaligned with reality.
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Thank You Candidates!
This helps – and countless other selfless supporters and great community members – make the exhausting journey of the last night months worthwhile.
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No Ideas But in Things: On Writing about Politics
Originally posted on The Brevity Blog: By Peter Amos No ideas but in things. Over the last two months, I’ve made my first real push for publication. Prominent magazines and journals often accept a fraction of one percent of submissions. There are thousands of others that accept between five and ten percent. The point being…
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Smoke Rises in Seattle
Originally posted on The Brevity Blog: By Nancy Schatz Alton Last night I walked through the smoke, face mask on. I walked through the smoke with my friend of 30 years. I walked through the smoke through a neighborhood transformed by money. I didn’t think about gentrification, that word I learned at college. Instead I…
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Literary Greatness at the Expense of Female Suffering: On Junot Diaz, David Foster Wallace, and Laurent Cantet’s The Workshop
Originally posted on The Brevity Blog: By Zoë Bossiere On the morning Junot Diaz’s essay, “The Legacy of Childhood Trauma,” was published in the New Yorker, Carmen Maria Machado sent this tweet out to her followers: Hi! Today, please meditate on how easily we accept women’s pain as collateral damage in men’s self-discovery. — Carmen…
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KISS isn’t so stupid
As a teacher, I often find myself assuming a level of knowledge that doesn’t exist, and I’m frustrated, both with the student (“How can you not know that?”) and with myself (“Given the audience, why would you make that assumption?”). Instead of breaking down a lesson into its basic parts, I use terms and references…
CL Pauwels at Large 