The New YorkerAmanda Peet on Getting Breast Cancer While Losing Her Parents
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/my-season-of-ativan
Dining and CookingThe Best Meatballs Do Not Exist, and Other Lessons I Learned in Italy
The “best” meatballs do not exist, at least according to Elvira, who is not technically a nonna. Though she did fit a particular American idea of the “nonna” with her stern rebukes about t…
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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2533114/the-best-meatballs-do-not-exist-and-other-lessons-i-learned-in-italy/
Cara SutraOn living with lower libido, due to mental health & trauma, perimenopause, HRT & ageing, chronic illness and identity shifts.
#LifeUnscripted #LowLibido #Perimenopause #Midlife #MentalHealth #TraumaRecovery #ChronicIllness #IdentityShift #LifeWriting #PersonalEssays #LivedExperience #HealingJourney #WomensHealth #HormoneHealth #SelfReflection #MidlifeJourney #QuietRevolution #EmotionalWellbeing #WritingLife
https://carasutra.com/2026/01/living-with-low-libido/
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"A week later I stood outside a crematoria, a place which called itself an animal funeral home, but which had at its heart a giant furnace, the muffled roar a constant presence, industrial fans humming and chimneys venting into the sky. I couldn’t see it as anything else. I wanted the fields behind it to have an owl—perhaps a short-eared owl or a snowy one, the kinds that like open spaces—because my sister loves owls and surely she deserved something good. The fields were empty though; the only bird I saw was a raven perched on top of a storage tower across the street, magnificently large and strikingly dark. I wondered if the view from where they sat was lovely, or at least interesting: an expanse of snowy fields and woods on one side, roads and industrial buildings on the other, all cast in the muted light of a pale winter day. I don’t know what’s lovely to a raven, though I hope one day I find out."
Writers Digest (unofficial)The Benefit of Writing an Essay That Goes Viral for All the Wrong Reasons https://www.writersdigest.com/the-benefit-of-writing-an-essay-that-goes-viral-for-all-the-wrong-reasons #WriteBetterNonfiction #OpinionJournalism #personalessays #OpinionPieces #Articles #Opinion #Op-Ed
IndieAuthors.Social NewsThe Sparkling Moment: How to Turn a True Event Into a Compelling Story
Author Corey Rosen shares his method for how to turn a true event into a compelling story by starting with a sparkling moment.
https://www.writersdigest.com/the-sparkling-moment-how-to-turn-a-true-event-into-a-compelling-story
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The Sparkling Moment: How to Turn a True Event Into a Compelling Story https://www.writersdigest.com/the-sparkling-moment-how-to-turn-a-true-event-into-a-compelling-story #WriteBetterNonfiction #PersonalEssayWriting #PersonalWriting #PersonalEssays #FunnyMoments #truestory #Moment
The Tree and the Voice and Writing a Novel https://www.writersdigest.com/the-tree-and-the-voice-and-writing-a-novel #WritingHabitsandPractices #NearDeathExperience #TheWriter'sLife #personalessays #novelwriting #BeInspired #Weather
Nicole MyersThe Difference Between Writing for You and Writing for The Algorithm (And Why Both Matter)
The post discusses the balance between writing for personal expression and for audience reach. It highlights the importance of creative freedom while recognizing the need for SEO techniques to make writing discoverable. Successful writing appeals to both personal voice and search algorithms, ensuring it connects with existing and potential readers.
