List: Fantastic essays on life | Curated by Sarah Paris

Oct 28, 2024
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Fantastic essays on life
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Thought Thinkers
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From the Mind of Michael Cline
How I Died in the AmazonAn out-of-this-world experience
Oct 28, 2024
45
Oct 28, 2024
45
In
Cinemania
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Simon Dillon
How Films and Faith Informed My Views on the Death PenaltyCinema and Christianity played an important role in shaping my political opinions, including those concerning state-sponsored executions
Oct 4, 2024
47
Oct 4, 2024
47
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Prism & Pen
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Dr. Thomas J. West III
Reconnecting With My Queer Cousin and My Appalachian RootsThe power of finding family again
Aug 29, 2024
12
Aug 29, 2024
12
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The Narrative Arc
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Joe Guay - Dispatches From the Guay Life!
3 Straight Friends Asked Why I Took So Long to Come Out of the ClosetThey legitimately seemed befuddled
Jul 7, 2024
79
Jul 7, 2024
79
In
Thought Thinkers
by
Ben Ulansey
Is the Future a thing of the Past?Corona, the cosmos and these strange digital days
Aug 21, 2024
81
Aug 21, 2024
81
In
The Narrative Arc
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Kendra Sparkles
My Hot Girl Summer Changed My LifeI was a camp counselor for children with disabilities
Jun 16, 2024
105
Jun 16, 2024
105
In
Middle-Pause
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Citizen Reader
My Husband Thought I Was InterruptingAnd I thought I was engaging in “cooperative overlapping”
Apr 28, 2024
412
Apr 28, 2024
412
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Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age
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Patrick Metzger
My Old Friend Moved Back to Our Hometown and I’m Much Sadder than I ThoughtIt’s not like he’s going to slap on a cardigan and wait for death
May 31, 2024
28
May 31, 2024
28
In
Personal Christian Testimonies
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David James
My Christian TestimonyFrom Reluctance to Awe
Oct 3, 2023
39
Oct 3, 2023
39
In
Age of Empathy
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Beth Riungu
Code-Switching for Play and Knife FightsI learned early that how you speak matters as much as what you say and sometimes it’s safer to play chameleon
Apr 25, 2024
12
Apr 25, 2024
12
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The Memoirist
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Greyson Ferguson
I Learned to Hate Myself as a Kid. That Stayed with Me as an AdultLessons learned as a child are hard to shake
Apr 22, 2024
57
Apr 22, 2024
57
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Age of Empathy
by
Meaghan Ward
My Grandmother Keeps Telling Me She Wants to DieI get it now, and I can’t find any more reasons to argue with her.
Apr 22, 2024
46
Apr 22, 2024
46
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Cancer Sucks, so Let’s Talk About It More
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Steffany Ritchie
Cancer in Real Life is Not Like in the MoviesManic pixie cancer girls drove me insane during cancer treatment
Mar 31, 2024
106
Mar 31, 2024
106
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Prism & Pen
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James Patrick Nelson
What If Harvey Milk Had Been the Teacher in Dead Poets Society?A gay kid finds out heartache and joy go hand in hand
Mar 22, 2024
31
Mar 22, 2024
31
In
The Wind Phone
by
Amy Sea
I’m Not Going to Wash That Gray Right Out of My Hair AnymoreLife is for the living and the dead
Feb 6, 2024
57
Feb 6, 2024
57
In
Momentum
by
Stephanie Georgopulos
On Seeing My Grandpa Strike a Pose at the BeachSnapshots of my Black history
Feb 25, 2021
22
Feb 25, 2021
22
In
Momentum
by
Stephanie Georgopulos
On Seeing My Grandpa Strike a Pose at the BeachSnapshots of my Black history
Feb 25, 2021
22
Feb 25, 2021
22
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Middle-Pause
by
Bebe Nicholson
What It’s Really Like to Be In My SeventiesLife isn’t fair, but it can be rich and full.
Dec 27, 2023
79
Dec 27, 2023
79
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Ellemeno
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Walter Rhein
Cycling Through the Heart of Rural American FascismWe brushed shoulders with monsters as kids and then gave them all the power as adults
Aug 19, 2023
140
Aug 19, 2023
140
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Age of Empathy
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Arpad Nagy
Surrounded But Alone, I Find More Family Than Fits in My HomeDiscovering kinship beyond borders and bonds beyond words
Nov 18, 2023
57
Nov 18, 2023
57