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professional book nerd with a heart of gold

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My Phone Is a Time Machine to a Place Where My Husband Is Still Alive

“Wherever you go, there you are.” My father quoted the words of Jon Kabat-Zinn, the famous mindfulness advocate, to me my entire life. He said this whe ...

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Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

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Shake What Your Mama Didn't Give You: Shapewear Through The Ages

From corsets and codpieces to shapewear and Spanx, people have tried to change their silhouettes for centuries. From The Seams, Jacki Lyden takes us on a sartorial tour of shapewear.

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Here Is Where We Stay: Finding A Village

A funny thing happens in your twenties and thirties, and this is especially true for millennial women with smartphones and Netflix, all of a sudden it becomes increasingly difficult to actually see…

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Winter Horseman, Grand Prize Winner (National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest/Anthony Lau)

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Going National: How America's Regional Theatre Movement Changed the Game

The American theatre as we know it didn't just evolve organically, inevitably; it was conjured by visionaries who dreamt of a national theatre outside New York, then built it.

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There Is No Honest Rest: All the Things I Would Rather Be Than Good

Nowadays there are unintended consequences for just about everything we do. An encouragement to strive for curiosity over goodness, to seek gentleness over righteousness, and engage with ethics as a process rather than a destination.

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Can Reading Make You Happier?

After the First World War, traumatized soldiers were often prescribed a course of reading.

YES! 

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Nurses, fathers, teachers, mothers. Why do we devalue someone the minute they care for others?

The real problem isn't about work-life balance—it's that we utterly devalue the importance of caregiving roles in our society.

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I Declared War on College Essays. Now Professors Use My Jeremiad in Class.

As a writer for the Internet, I get my share of memorable correspondence. I have been the recipient of the Nietzschean misappropriations of an avowed n ...

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Unsatisfied Women In Western Art History

Western art history is littered with women looking unimpressed.

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Giving me hope for American soccer.... in the meantime... afram Ísland! (via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M5_WBOCKXs)