Chloé Caldwell
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Sometimes I drive over and back the Rip Van Winkle Bridge four times a day. We live in Hudson and Louise goes to public school in Catskill. The drive is only 12 minutes. Last February, my ex-husband signed a lease on an apartment in Catskill which is walking distance to school. He travels for work and is currently playing piano on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. I’m on his lease for school reasons. I’ve never had two leases before. As Louise said yesterday, it is very privileged. <a class="image
What Do You Harbor That Rots? (opens the original)
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I’m writing from The Urbane Arts Club where I hosted a binge writing retreat this past weekend in Ditmas Park Brooklyn. (Substack calling these “articles” BTW, is a laugh and a half.) Fourteen people attended my Write 20K In Three days Retreat. A good handful were commuters who didn’t stay at the house and live a couple of blocks from here. People got to meet their neighbors. It was all very uplifting. I don’t like to say what we do explicitly at the retreats because you have to attend to really
The Buddha of Ben and Jerry's (opens the original)
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I have not been unable to stop ruminating on the celebration of life memorial I went to a week ago today in Portland, Oregon last weekend for Brian Lindstrom. It is hard to shake off the heavy feeling. If you don’t know Brian, my favorite interview with him is this one in The Rumpus. He was a documentary filmmaker, a father, a husband, a community member and artist; he was married to writer Cheryl Strayed, which is how I knew him when she mentored me and I babysat t
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