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Wow, thank you Baltimore Beat for including EMOTION INDUSTRY in their local holiday gift guide. With Ceremony! Jinji! Cuples Tea! Susan Darraj! Paul Coates!
For local authors, a way you can help us & the local literary community is to ask your local bookstore to order our books. 🧡
Find our suggestions for books, experiences, food, and more. https://buff.ly/4fDk1Ha
"Bring back the Oxford comma, stop using ordinals!!!!"

⏫Me, at work.
December 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
You know you’re from Baltimore when you’re bonding with someone about walking or biking to work, then one of you says “but I give a lot of space to cars with VA tags” & the other person is like “mmhmm not messing with that.”
December 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Today was the first day in almost 4 decades of life that I used "find and replace." My middle school had a class where we learned how to use Word and Excel. I have no idea how today was my first day doing this.
December 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Mostly dealing with it by writing revenge novels
how do women not die of rage aneurysms every single day
December 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"It’s enough to make a person kneel down in the street, this light. How any small piece, no matter where it comes from, fits exactly right."
orionmagazine.org/article/lett...
Letters to Boulders - Orion Magazine
A poet geologist reads the earth
orionmagazine.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Getting ready for 2026 like
December 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Y'all. I am still getting random bills for bloodwork my primary care physician ordered in September. September! This is how our insurance works now: random bills for months so you cannot keep track of what was covered and what wasn't covered.
December 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I am no longer in academia; I am an internal communications professional. But in my field, AI has brought about how important our expertise is for authenticity & critical thinking. Professors are the people shaping these skills in younger generations.
I’ve seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by [the madness of university layoffs of creative writing professors].
December 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I’ve seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by [the madness of university layoffs of creative writing professors].
December 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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great Book Festival day 1, our panel was so much fun and I also got to see Lawrence Burney and Jeff Chang, Marcus J. Moore and Gayle Wald, and Tracy Dimond
September 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Another awesome backyard reading today in the “Seemingly Mature” series run by Tim Carter and Liz Bowen! This evening’s awesomeness came from poets and fictioneers John Colasacco, Kofi Antwi, Gina Nutt, Misha Tentser, Tracy Dimond, and Jesse Nissim!
August 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Every time I watch a video from The Last Dinner Party, I am transported back to Bread & Puppet (this is positive).
December 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I love getting older. Kids will be like “have you heard of XYZ” and they look at me with wonder when I say “I was alive for that.”
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
All my ankle sprain / foot stress fracture rehab looks a lot like hypermobility pre-hab.
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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I'm so proud of girls.
12th grade girls are now less likely to say they want to get married someday
1993: 83%
2023: 61%
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Here’s to the editors! Can we include copy editors too? Both save us from ourselves.
By the way, it's National Editor Appreciation Day.

Nobody ever reads a great article and thinks, "Dang, that was some tight editing." But editing is a big part of how it got to be great.

So writers, if you've ever worked with a good editor, shout 'em out.
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I want my healthcare to cover my costs when I unexpectedly end up in the hospital or at the doctor. I do not want personalized wellness tips from them.
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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The surprise factor should have died a while back.
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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“The world is dumber, and we all know it,” Lane Brown writes. For our Cover Story, Brown writes about our recent cognitive diminishment — and proposes a counter-intuitive theory of what’s causing it. tinyurl.com/4648c9pj
November 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I think I just watched my first AI doctor video. I would say I’m throwing all my technology into the water this holiday season, but I do not want to pollute the Jones Falls 😭
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A cannonball? In Fort McHenry? The setting of the Star-Spangled Banner?
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Famously, there was a battle here.
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A common argument that tries to diminish environmental usage of AI is that it uses similar energy to streaming platforms. Because new information doesn't threaten my entire being, I am more mindful of my streaming now that I know this fact.
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
A friend shared her grad school environmental writing syllabus & let me tell you, I would have read Walden much sooner if someone told me he had so much sass: “The luxuriously rich are not simply kept comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot; as I implied before, they are cooked, of course à la mode.”
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
They say Gen Z is obsessed with their direct elders, Millenials, and let me tell you, as a Millenial, I’ve been really into music from my direct elders, Gen X, lately. Give me a longer Lilith Fair documentary plz.
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM