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How Do You Want to Be Remembered? (opens the original)
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This past month, we, as a society—especially those invested in the sectors of society revolving around entertainment—received several hard pieces of news. Several entertainment icons passed away, including Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Hayden Panetierre. Nationally, and even internationally, I witnessed the impact of their loss, and how people came together, both digitally and in person, to mourn these figures and celebrate all they had offered us in their time on this earth. How they’d used the
I Have a Confession (opens the original)
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I’ve been keeping a secret, but I won’t be able to keep it much longer. This is a very good thing because I am terrible at keeping secrets (unless I forget about them for a while, which is likely and also very safe), and I probably haven’t even kept this secret as well as I thought I did.So I am here today, finding you at the end of August, because I am seeking the relief that only comes from confessing a secret. I am here to tell you what’s going on.For a while now, many of my newsletters have
Catching Minnows (opens the original)
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When I was a child, I went to a sailing camp. It was on the bay, and there were docks on three of the four sides, one side facing a basin with homes across the way, one half-basin and half open to the channel, and the last side was all facing the channel and any non-camp-related boats passing by. On the strictly basin-facing side, there were three docks we used at camp. The two smaller ones framed the ramp where boats were rolled into the water on dollies, or hauled back up at the end of the day
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