Category: Personal Posts
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For Holocaust Remembrance Day, I Watched a Friend Fall for QAnon and into Anti-Semitism
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of when Auschwitz was liberated and the horror of the Holocaust began to truly reveal itself to the world. Instead of sharing the usual photos of emaciated bodies behind barbed wire and spouting #NeverForget hashtags, I want to offer a personal story—one that’s much more recent and…
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Screaming is What We Do Best (As Writers Writing for Nothingness)
DO YOU EVER FEEL like writing nothing for the sake of nothingness, in a black hole of a vacuum of ideas, pandering and rambling about rambling in pure space and time, because the blank page mocks you into a fury? BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, I just want to write, and type, and stumble over words, words…
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What It Feels Like When Someone Wishes Me ‘Happy Hanukkah’
I grew up in a conservative, Christian state where most people say Merry Christmas. And that’s fine. I usually say Happy Holidays. I never take offense to a greeting of the season, regardless of how it’s spoken. But something warm and precious emerges when someone wishes me Happy Hanukkah. Let me paint a picture for…
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Preparing to Say Good-Bye
Saying good-bye is nature’s cruel joke, and now I’m preparing to say good-bye to my best friend and my writing companion of the past 13 years. Chance “Mazel Tov” Lopatin, also known as Mr. Man. For those of you who have been following my blog for years, you may remember Chance from the viral Freshly Pressed post,…