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Nicolette Shasky
Interactive and UI designer Nicolette Shasky’s site isn’t just beautiful, graphic, and bold — she also shares hard-won design, freelancing, and business tips on her blog.
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“The poor kid can’t figure out why he is unable to waltz beneath the dinner table. He can see his hands, his feet, his belly, even his junior if he sucks in, but what he can’t see is that ever-so-stealthy forehead that perches on top like a frightened cat.”
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beginnings ~
We loved the simplicity and depth of tornadoday’s poem, “beginnings”: “it hardly seems / a moment passed / before the coming home / to understand / beginnings / have no end”
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Roasted Autumn Vegetable Pot Pies
We could not agree more: “there’s something about taking pastry dough and wrapping it around, partially or completely, some kind of filling that makes it simply irresistible.”
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Writing Through Grief: Five Posts
For many of us, writing is catharsis: a way to process and release difficult emotions. Few things are as emotional as the loss of a friend, family member, personal hero, or pet so it’s no surprise that we read a lot of posts paying tribute to lost loved ones and trying to make sense of […]
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Author Amanda Mininger on Coming Back to Writing
“I don’t recognize the words anymore. Who was I back then?”
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The Power of Reading: Readers Respond
Last week, we highlighted Ann Morgan’s amazing reading project, Postcards from my bookshelf. For each month in 2017, she’s selecting a book and mailing it to a reader somewhere in the world. Readers had much to say about Ann’s book-labor of love. Here are a handful of their responses. Ready for a custom domain, advanced […]


