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A Little Life List: When You're In The S***.
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When to Quit and When to Keep Writing
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A Little Life List: When Mean Girl is on Your Shoulder
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What to do when it's soooo hard to get to the page.
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A coffee break in your wild, wonderful life

Little Life Lists

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A Little Life List: When This Work is Hard
Eleven Tips for When You Get an Edit
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A Little Life List: When You Need To Remember
What's the most important thing to remember on a list in the clamour?
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A Little Life List: When You Need a Friend
Do you have a friend you can call right now?
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A Little Life List: When Mean Girl is on Your Shoulder
Imposter syndrome and your other quieter voice, trying to be heard
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A Little Life List: When You're In The S***.
Grace, Solace, and the Uncharted Mystery of Alzheimer's.
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A Little Life List: When You Want to Hibernate
Winter isn't a time for resolutions, perhaps: this winter is showing me something you may find useful, too...
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Jessica Smock

Recent posts

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Short Death Stories: Your Instructions for... (Can We Even Talk About This???)
Why and how to write your instructions for your own funeral
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Alice Kuipers
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A Little Life List: When This Work is Hard
Eleven Tips for When You Get an Edit
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Alice Kuipers
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Short Death Stories: Have You Ever Tried Writing Your Own Obituary?
The problem with a purpose-driven life.
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Alice Kuipers
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A Little Life List: When You Need To Remember
What's the most important thing to remember on a list in the clamour?
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Alice Kuipers
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Short Death Stories: Becoming a Celebrant
What job would you do if you could do anything else?
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Alice Kuipers
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A Little Life List: When You Need a Friend
Do you have a friend you can call right now?
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Alice Kuipers
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How We Craft Stories That Make Sense of the World. Or Not.
Memory Loss: a dramatic shift and the scraps we reach for
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Alice Kuipers
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A Little Life List: When Mean Girl is on Your Shoulder
Imposter syndrome and your other quieter voice, trying to be heard
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Alice Kuipers
26

Short Death Stories

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Short Death Stories: Your Instructions for... (Can We Even Talk About This???)
Why and how to write your instructions for your own funeral
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Alice Kuipers
4
Short Death Stories: Have You Ever Tried Writing Your Own Obituary?
The problem with a purpose-driven life.
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Alice Kuipers
27
Short Death Stories: Becoming a Celebrant
What job would you do if you could do anything else?
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Alice Kuipers
4

Coffee Break

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How We Craft Stories That Make Sense of the World. Or Not.
Memory Loss: a dramatic shift and the scraps we reach for
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Because Five Minutes
Anyone else trying to do too much?
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How to Find Home
A little magic in the hurly-burly of the season
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Alice Kuipers
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How to Find the Moon
Beautiful lines from Katherine May and how they can reshape us
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Why The River of Information is Hard to Swim
Sylvia Plath and Jorge Luis Borges illuminate why we can never read all the books we want...
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Tips + Secrets

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Writing Secrets: Be Gentle With Yourself.
Do you ever get stuck creatively? What do you do with writer's block? How do you find confidence?
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What to do when it's soooo hard to get to the page.
How to earn the good days.
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When to Quit and When to Keep Writing
Success and Failure as a writer (part two)
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Confessions & Coffee
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