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On gentle self-interrogation
... plus, INS & OUTS for 2023
Jan 1
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Ashley Bethard
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December 2022
On crying at the ballet
I want to write everyday because how else will I notice – and remember – how certain moments felt? Those glimpses of clarity, those realizations? I can…
Dec 19, 2022
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A ghost in the machine
What can AI teach us about ourselves? A mixed bag on memory, grief, running, and a haunting (CW: body dysmorphia, sibling loss)
Dec 7, 2022
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April 2022
A sentence, a paragraph, a page
100 days of creativity
Apr 8, 2022
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January 2021
What the trees taught me about us
Wow. New Year's Day, 2021. I made it. And if you're reading this, you made it too. 2020 was, for all its faults, a necessary year. It was filled with so…
Jan 1, 2021
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September 2020
the joke of time
A smattering of tomatoes rest on my counter, flecked by sunlight that has found its way through the blinds. Some are fat, some are tiny. Some are…
Sep 19, 2020
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March 2020
Self-care in hard times
All weekend – the slowest, most anxiety-ridden weekend I’ve had in a long, long time – I kept telling myself I’d use some of the extra time to write…
Mar 15, 2020
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December 2019
Everything goes
Right now I am re-reading Joan Didion's "Play It As It Lays," a novel she wrote in 1970, and one I return to every year or every other year. One thing…
Dec 9, 2019
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September 2019
Tomatoes are HARD: or, my season of growth
Hello, dearest. How fitting it is to start this on the first day of fall, a season I have been resisting against up until this weekend. There are two…
Sep 23, 2019
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August 2019
Red is the color of August
It is hard to say much, and August has been a hard month. Here are some words. I hope this resonates with some of you. love, ashley Red is the color of…
Aug 12, 2019
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January 2019
How to stay amazed in a world that seems bent on destruction
I am of the mind that joy and sadness don't cancel each other out. They are not mutually destructive. One does not replace the other. They can -- and…
Jan 21, 2019
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July 2018
In the thick of summer, arguments against a singular self.
Hello, dearest. We are here, in the thick of the summer, and all I can think about is the family farm where I spent 13 years of my life. There is…
Jul 19, 2018
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