Shelby Rodger
@coffee-cigarettes.bsky.social
Digital publication featuring diaristic writing, politics, think pieces, pop culture musings, and everything in between. Read our previous posts on Substack: coffeeandcigarettes.substack.com
"Being adaptable means saying ‘yes’ to where you are. Saying ‘yes’ brings things into consciousness."
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Whale Watching
My aunt who retired early to pursue a marine biology internship: "... the greatest changes always came from when I said ‘yes’ to something."
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September 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"Being adaptable means saying ‘yes’ to where you are. Saying ‘yes’ brings things into consciousness."
coffeeandcigarettes.substack.com/p/whale-watc...
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"To burn a book is to burn part of the human spirit." Highly recommend reading Margaret Atwood's speech from the recent PEN International Congress in Poland: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Handmaid's Tale Banned in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Schools
And everyone and their pet canary wants me to "comment."
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September 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"To burn a book is to burn part of the human spirit." Highly recommend reading Margaret Atwood's speech from the recent PEN International Congress in Poland: substack.com/home/post/p-...
"... I wanted to muse about water as a life-form, the human body existing as another body of water... It is impossible to write about water without also writing about climate change, or about Palestinians dying from thirst and hunger and disease."
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If Our Bodies Are Water and If Water Is a Body
"My children don’t have food at home, so I say, we’ll take you to the sea."
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August 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"... I wanted to muse about water as a life-form, the human body existing as another body of water... It is impossible to write about water without also writing about climate change, or about Palestinians dying from thirst and hunger and disease."
coffeeandcigarettes.substack.com/p/if-our-bod...
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