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Places to Be (opens the original)
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NO AC (opens the original)
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Live with Lindsey Salatka and Erin O’Malley (opens the original)
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Thank you to everyone who tuned into my conversation with Erin O’Malley about animals, how they save us, and why they get the best of us. The recording is above in case you missed it. To buy Erin’s incredible dual-prespective memoir, The Brat and the Bullfighter , go here. Here is what it’s about: Some horses don’t just change your life, they save it. Arty’s blood runs hot. White hot. A white Lusitano stallion with bullfighting in his bones, he was born on a prestigious Brazilian farm and sold t
A Season of Last Firsts and Final Finals (opens the original)
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It’s a season of last firsts and final finals as we enter my youngest child’s senior year of high school. At any moment you may find me bawling, and that’s just how it is until maybe forever, at least that’s how it feels right now.Anyway, it got me thinking about sentimentality and how I triple down on it. I must have been like this for centuries, because this kind of waterworks situation doesn’t just spring up overnight, nor in just one life. This emo flow has been honed and refined since the e
Books and...Lice? (opens the original)
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