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Angela Garbes Is Reclaiming Realistic Motherhood thecut.com

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Josh Radnor writes a beautiful newsletter. It always feels like a gift. Here are some gems from the latest issue - italics are emphasis from the original, bold are mine.

There are no unwounded people. Wounding and trauma are features and facts of being a human being.

Why is it that I’m convinced my life should be linear and predictable, devoid of obstacle, conflict, and challenge, the very elements that make a story engaging and worth telling? Don’t I want to live a great story?

Nothing is the heaven or hell I want to make it out to be.

🔖📚 Kate McKean writes in today’s Agents and Books about professional jealousy. Her advice applies to academics, too, and probably any field. “No one is being successful AT me.”

🔖📚 Read Cozy Flash: The Cat and the Conerian.

Adorable. Cozy fantasy is my current genre of choice.

🔖 Micro.blog is one my favorite places on the Internet, and Jean MacDonald’s article A Guide to Micro.blog For People Who Have A Love/Hate Relationship With Twitter is a good introduction.

🔖 Read Review: A riveting biographer — and mother — works to solve ‘the mind-baby problem’.

🔖 Read Cranking.

🔖 Read The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done.

I’ve been thinking a lot about personal productivity, what it’s good for and what it isn’t. This article is about a year and a half old now but it points in a direction of collective solutions.

🔖 Read Who Is Steven Hotdog? Or, Untangling the “Braided Essay” |.

What’s Steven Hotdog to me, or I to Steven Hotdog, that I should weep for him?

Ever since I learned about the Steven Hotdog essay I have loved this descriptor. Jess Zimmerman is one of my favorite writers.

🔖 Read 11 Bookish Accessories to Make Reading More Accessible.

I love pieces like this. Getting a book holder changed my reading life.