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Encouraging creative pursuits and seeing them through, or at least from point A to B.

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Sep 27, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 27, 2026

    What Kept Me Going This Week: Things My Students Said & Did Edition (opens the original)

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    The way his face lit up when he saw the Spiderman stickers I printed for him. The way their voices squealed as they decorated their folders. The five hugs she gave me in the 20 minutes we spent reading together. The smile on his face at the end of our session, worn out of a sense of pride. “I had fun reading with you today.” The way she greets me everyday by saying “8:30” because that’s the time we read together. The way she says, “I wish we could read for 100 minutes” when I remind her that our

  2. Issue · Sep 23, 2026

    Learning & Observations From My First Few Weeks as a K-3 Reading Tutor at a Title I Public Charter School (opens the original)

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    When I began this publication in January, the raison d’être was to help myself and others see creative projects through. I urgently needed a space to write and separate myself from my day job that, while facilitated a very comfortable life, made me miserable. What I didn’t know was that, while this publication was in fact a space to create, cultivate community, and kee

  3. Issue · Sep 6, 2026

    who has time to write anymore? (opens the original)

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    The last time I tapped into this platform was two-and-a-half weeks ago. Before that, it had been about a month since I penned my post from the train. I’m certain that the person most bothered by this is me.<source ty

  4. Issue · Jul 23, 2026

    A post from the train (opens the original)

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    I’ve never written a Substack article on my iPhone 15 Pro, but right now, aboard Denver’s A Line from Union Station to Denver International Airport, I find myself at once too distracted to read and hyper-focused on writing, on processing and packaging my feelings in a box (in the form of a Substack article) to revisit again, when this moment is behind me. My office—what was my office until 50 minutes ago for the last 2.5+ years—is a six-minute walk to the train station. I handed in my badge and

  5. Issue · Jul 19, 2026

    the last of the lower 48 (opens the original)

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    When Anabelle moved to Denver in August 2021 from Miami, nine months after I had arrived in the Mile High City from New Orleans, we were in our mid-20s and we loved the road. Having grown up in the northeast and transplanted to the southeast for college, then to the mountain west, we had spent weeks—sometimes for fun, sometimes out of necessity—traversing the continental United States. We realized were in the ballpark of high 30s/low 40s in terms of states we had visited1, and with that realizat

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