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Over the past few months I’ve spent several weeks in St. Augustine, Florida, for stints of house-sitting (big thank you to my friend Rae and her mom…
Anna Perling
I haven’t been writing much lately for various reasons: Accidentally reading every take on newsletters to be found on the internet! Burnout! Feeling…
Anna Perling
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January 2021

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…
Anna Perling
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

November 2020

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…
Anna Perling

October 2020

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…
Anna Perling

May 2020

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…
Anna Perling
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…
Anna Perling
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

April 2020

Taking a break this week. But… Until next time.
Anna Perling
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
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…
Anna Perling
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