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Is this working?
Of the bajillion tweets, takes, articles, and images I consumed last week, Anne Helen Petersen’s newsletter How to Work Through a Coup really got me, p…
Anna Perling
Jan 11
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On loop
It feels strange to enter a new year when not much is new, doesn’t it? Over the past month I’ve reveled in my share of escapist media to try and abate …
Anna Perling
Jan 5
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Thoughts in my mind
This is my newsletter and I do what I want to. Today that means sending a very short note to say: I’m thinking of you. Here’s one song to leave you wit…
Anna Perling
Nov 3, 2020
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The break
Well, hello. It’s been many months since I last wrote to you. The first few weeks of that break were planned. The rest were not! So here’s what happene…
Anna Perling
Oct 24, 2020
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New language
Is it just me, or was this a cataclysmic week? I wrapped it up by working with my mentee on this writing prompt from Poets & Writers: In the Cut, seven…
Anna Perling
May 18, 2020
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To your future self
The future! It’s more amorphous than ever, despite all of our tugging and prodding to force it into something recognizable. So I invite you to meet you…
Anna Perling
May 11, 2020
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Why write?
A few weeks ago I read Joan Didion’s essay Why I Write after my friend Mamie sent it along for a writing prompt. The piece originally ran in the Times …
Anna Perling
May 4, 2020
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I just called to say
Taking a break this week. But… Until next time.
Anna Perling
Apr 26, 2020
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Say yes to your choices
Every Sunday, I go to Dance Church. This means I open a window on my computer, pay $15, and connect to a live stream dance class with several thousand …
Anna Perling
Apr 20, 2020
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A weird sandwich
Every year to celebrate Passover, we have a seder. Seder means “order,” and it’s the term for the traditional dinner where we read the haggadah. Haggad…
Anna Perling
Apr 13, 2020
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Your Seven Wonders
My friend Tess taught me a game called Seven Wonders, which I guess you could also classify as a thought exercise. It’s simple and can be never-ending …
Anna Perling
Apr 5, 2020
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Mind, heart, hands
“I will only read a cookbook if it is one in which the poetry of food comes alive on the page,” writes Tamar Adler in An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with…
Anna Perling
Mar 30, 2020
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