Adrienne | writing words, stirring stories
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Adrienne | writing words, stirring stories
@adrienneschwartz.bsky.social
Twenty years of storytelling — still chasing words.
✍️ Blogs, reflections, and the occasional outburst.
I forgot how to flirt with life but thankfully, a small red umbrella helped me see the whimsical side of things. My new essay just got published in Human Parts. Would love to share it with you.

#grief #whimsy #HumanParts #writing

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Courting Life One Umbrella at a Time
Using whimsy to move from grief to joy
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November 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I’m a little drunk on words.
My essay “How to Experience Words: The Lure of Writing” just came out in The Hub — a love letter to writing itself.
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#LoveOfWords #WritingCommunity #Essays #TheHubPublication
How To Experience Words
The lure of writing
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November 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
They call it progress. I call it cannibalism — history devouring itself.
Bulldozers at the East Wing — Destroy history at your peril.

My essay has just posted on Medium

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#EastWing #History #Whitehouse #Historicpreservation
Bulldozers at the East Wing
Destroy history at your peril
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October 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
In dark times, stories light our way.
My new essay, just published on The Hub.

Walking with the Master, explores what Tolkien teaches me about finding imagination when it’s time to speak out.

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#Tolkien #WritingCommunity #Creativity
Walking With The Master
Drawing inspiration from J.R.R. Tolkien
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October 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If you are not a competitor in this world, you should learn to be.
October 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I wasn’t built for competition. My cousin Nevyblue was. Human Parts published my essay on competitiveness and what the difference taught me. 👉 medium.com/human-parts/...

#competitive #competition #personalgrowth
Lessons From A Fierce Competitor
How one life shaped my own small victories
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October 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Thrilled—my first piece just got published in Human Parts on Medium! It’s about grief, truth, and learning to be an “apprentice mourner.”

Become the Bossman of your Grief

Confessions of an Apprentice Mourner

Feeling grateful and a little stunned. 💙

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Become the Bossman of Your Grief
Confessions of an Apprentice Mourner
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September 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Tipsy, rotten, or three sheets to the wind — English is filthy rich in words. Are you using them to full effect? My latest essay uncovers some lost words that make writing vivid and powerful.

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#words #writing #language
Unleash Power Words in Your Writing
Bringing life to tired prose through power words and hidden treasures
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September 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
How I Came To Spy My Dragonfly

Looking for hope in difficult times

Deep water can be sublime. But if you’re in deep water, how do you drag yourself to a surface you can’t even see? My essay about deep water just posted.
#lifelessons #grief #hope

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How I Came To Spy My Dragonfly
Looking for hope in difficult times
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September 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
So a writer and a storyteller walk into a bar…where does their wager end? Find out in my latest Medium post. #storytelling #writing #funread

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A Writer, A Storyteller, A Wager
A fun exercise in show don’t tell
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August 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Just me, and me as my chatbot, and the slow collapse of democracy.
Take a look at my Medium post.

My AI and I Feel Bad About Our Democracy

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#writinglife #Mediumwriters #Humor
My AI and I Feel Bad About Our Democracy
A parody skit featuring one AI with grandiose aspirations and one writer with no caffeine — both voiced by the author.
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July 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
BREAKING: AI refuses to help writer fix democracy.

Suggests haiku instead.

This is not the future we ordered.

“My AI and I Feel Bad About Our Democracy”

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#BREAKING #satire #humor #chatbotlife
My AI and I Feel Bad About Our Democracy
A parody skit featuring one AI with grandiose aspirations and one writer with no caffeine — both voiced by the author.
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July 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
🌧 New post on Medium: “Things Here in Texas Are Not Okay.”

This flood wasn’t just a tragedy. It was predicted. It was preventable.

We need to stop pretending no one saw it coming.

Please read, share, challenge the silence.
👉

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Things Here in Texas are Not Okay
Why the Texas flood isn’t just a tragedy
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July 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Some people write bare-bones. Some like to enchant. I just try not to trip over the python in aisle 9. New post up now.
#writing #storytelling #medium

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Writer or Storyteller
Skeletal Prose or Pythons in Aisle 9
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June 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I just posted on Medium, Love Letter To Paris. A few tips for an unforgettable first visit to the City Of Light. For anyone who’s ever rushed through something too special to be tasted only once #Paris #TravelWriting #MediumWriters #WalkingCities: medium.com/@afs_47064/l...
Love Letter to Paris in a Hurry
Falling in love with Paris despite time constraints.
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May 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Just published: Due Process: There Be Dragons — a reflection on due process and moral responsibility in dangerous times. As Tolkien, that famed dragon whisperer, warned us: dragons speak out both sides of their mouths.
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#writing #storytelling
Due Process: There Be Dragons
Evil Doesn’t Vanish When We Refuse to See It
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May 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM