Judith Hannah Weiss
@jhannahart.bsky.social
Judith Hannah Weiss began writing at Time Magazine, freelanced for 25 years, and was then hit by a truck. Post-truck, she has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essay.
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“Some were parents. Some had parents. Some had toddlers. Some spoke like toddlers. Or did not speak at all. We each had a story, but most of us couldn’t say what it was."
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Maggie and a gratitude prayer
...a dispatch from bewilderness
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June 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“Some were parents. Some had parents. Some had toddlers. Some spoke like toddlers. Or did not speak at all. We each had a story, but most of us couldn’t say what it was."
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#aging #braindamage #writing #author #writingcommunity #literature
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"Known as the “census taker of the sky,” Annie Jump Cannon was a brilliant astronomer who wasn't called an astronomer, instead she called a “computer”, as in one who computes, for much of her professional life."
#writing #women #feminism #science
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#writing #women #feminism #science
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The census-taker of the sky
...or "Oh! Be A Fine Girl — Kiss Me!"
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June 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"Known as the “census taker of the sky,” Annie Jump Cannon was a brilliant astronomer who wasn't called an astronomer, instead she called a “computer”, as in one who computes, for much of her professional life."
#writing #women #feminism #science
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#writing #women #feminism #science
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"For some, transformation takes years of practice. Others just get hit by a truck. Oh, right. That’s what happened. I got hit by a truck."
#writing #braininjury #disability
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#writing #braininjury #disability
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Attempting the impossible
...a dispatch from bewilderness
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June 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"For some, transformation takes years of practice. Others just get hit by a truck. Oh, right. That’s what happened. I got hit by a truck."
#writing #braininjury #disability
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#writing #braininjury #disability
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Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns
Gun control groups condemned the move as “a dangerous backroom deal spearheaded by Trump’s general counsel” that “effectively legalized machine guns.”
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May 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
"Everyone wants to be trusted and this is especially true in a close, personal relationship. Like a brain. I landed in a landscape I’d never seen as a person I’d never been. Once I was someone. Then I was someone else."
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Icons and editors
...A dispatch from bewilderness
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May 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"Everyone wants to be trusted and this is especially true in a close, personal relationship. Like a brain. I landed in a landscape I’d never seen as a person I’d never been. Once I was someone. Then I was someone else."
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#writing #braininjury
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"In my first life, I parked one word next to the other and they stayed where I put them. This was called freelance writing and meant morphing so Elle would sound like Elle, Elmo would sound like Elmo, and Rolling Stone would sound — well, stoned."
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May 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"In my first life, I parked one word next to the other and they stayed where I put them. This was called freelance writing and meant morphing so Elle would sound like Elle, Elmo would sound like Elmo, and Rolling Stone would sound — well, stoned."
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"Once upon a time, polar ice caps weren’t melting. We didn’t phish, facetime, or delete cookies. We didn’t text “srsly” for “seriously” or “tl;dr,” which means “too long; didn’t read” or “WTF” when we meant “go f—k yourself.”"
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When We Had Time for Syllables
...A dispatch from bewilderness
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May 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"Once upon a time, polar ice caps weren’t melting. We didn’t phish, facetime, or delete cookies. We didn’t text “srsly” for “seriously” or “tl;dr,” which means “too long; didn’t read” or “WTF” when we meant “go f—k yourself.”"
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"Nora Ephron wrote that in her sex fantasy, no one ever loved her for her mind. I get it. But my situation is somewhat worse. My heart broke a few times, of course, notably when I was 16 and Bobby left me when I wouldn’t do it and Debby would."
#writing
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#writing
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A Nora Ephron lunch
...sort of
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May 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"Nora Ephron wrote that in her sex fantasy, no one ever loved her for her mind. I get it. But my situation is somewhat worse. My heart broke a few times, of course, notably when I was 16 and Bobby left me when I wouldn’t do it and Debby would."
#writing
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#writing
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"While scientists find new but tentative evidence of life on a distant planet, we delve into news on the fly. Rather, news of a fly. Rather news of a guilt-ridden killer who tried to revive a swatted fly."
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News on the fly
While scientists find new but tentative evidence of life on a distant planet, we delve into news on the fly. Rather, news of a fly.
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April 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"While scientists find new but tentative evidence of life on a distant planet, we delve into news on the fly. Rather, news of a fly. Rather news of a guilt-ridden killer who tried to revive a swatted fly."
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Dolly Parton didn't spend her dollars on space travel or a trip to the titanic because she was writing checks to put 150 million books in the hands of children.
Make that 200 million books now.
200 million books for kids from Dolly.
Make that 200 million books now.
200 million books for kids from Dolly.
April 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Dolly Parton didn't spend her dollars on space travel or a trip to the titanic because she was writing checks to put 150 million books in the hands of children.
Make that 200 million books now.
200 million books for kids from Dolly.
Make that 200 million books now.
200 million books for kids from Dolly.
"The beauty of lists is that they allow for big jumps between ideas. They can also connect the seemingly disconnected, bring order to chaos and sometimes make things make sense."
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#writing #writingcommunity #authors #author #books #Booksky
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April 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"The beauty of lists is that they allow for big jumps between ideas. They can also connect the seemingly disconnected, bring order to chaos and sometimes make things make sense."
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#writing #writingcommunity #authors #author #books #Booksky
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#writing #writingcommunity #authors #author #books #Booksky
If you see a magnolia blooming this week, please know that it is one of our oldest flowering species, over one hundred million years old. Once upon a time, dinosaurs walked under them.
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April 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
If you see a magnolia blooming this week, please know that it is one of our oldest flowering species, over one hundred million years old. Once upon a time, dinosaurs walked under them.
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"I’m an antique. When I began in media, magazine covers were painted on caves."
An excerpt from my newest piece in Dorothy Parker's Ashes.
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#writingcommunity #writing #author #tbi #media #braininjury
An excerpt from my newest piece in Dorothy Parker's Ashes.
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#writingcommunity #writing #author #tbi #media #braininjury
I Would Like A Word — Dorothy Parker's Ashes
Word Count 1868 My job was words. The right words at the right time. I started on staff at Time, then became a freelancer, and later, a part-time ghost. My clients produced Oprah and Elmo and...
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April 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"I’m an antique. When I began in media, magazine covers were painted on caves."
An excerpt from my newest piece in Dorothy Parker's Ashes.
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#writingcommunity #writing #author #tbi #media #braininjury
An excerpt from my newest piece in Dorothy Parker's Ashes.
www.dorothyparkersashes.com/work/headlin...
#writingcommunity #writing #author #tbi #media #braininjury
"Speaking of rats, I mean, speaking of tariffs, a bomb-detecting rat named Ronin has smashed the previous world record for rats sniffing munitions."
#writing #booksy #writingcoumminity #author #humor
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#writing #booksy #writingcoumminity #author #humor
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Ronin the Rat
...a rodent scholar who saves lives
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April 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Speaking of rats, I mean, speaking of tariffs, a bomb-detecting rat named Ronin has smashed the previous world record for rats sniffing munitions."
#writing #booksy #writingcoumminity #author #humor
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#writing #booksy #writingcoumminity #author #humor
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"I mix things up and say things like, “You can’t tell the forest from the horse that left the barn before it was locked.” This seems to make people squint."
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April 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"I mix things up and say things like, “You can’t tell the forest from the horse that left the barn before it was locked.” This seems to make people squint."
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"Women did not “get” breast cancer when I started freelancing at Condé Nast in about 1981, because we couldn’t say “breast” in media, though you could show them in men’s magazines. Correction, you had to show them in men’s magazines."
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#Writing #authors
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What It Was Like Working At Women's Magazines In the '80s
I don't remember much, but I do remember not being allowed to write the words "Pregnant”, “Breast” or “Sex.”
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April 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"Women did not “get” breast cancer when I started freelancing at Condé Nast in about 1981, because we couldn’t say “breast” in media, though you could show them in men’s magazines. Correction, you had to show them in men’s magazines."
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#Writing #authors
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#Writing #authors
I write because humans are worth writing and fighting for.
March 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I write because humans are worth writing and fighting for.
"Observations, while sometimes funny, are also real in a way that can make the laugh catch in your throat. Like things which flash by at the intersection of fear and hope"
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There are two things in my way
A dispatch from bewilderness
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March 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"Observations, while sometimes funny, are also real in a way that can make the laugh catch in your throat. Like things which flash by at the intersection of fear and hope"
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#Writing #literature #writingcommunity #booksky #authors #writers #Wellness
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#Writing #literature #writingcommunity #booksky #authors #writers #Wellness
A recent piece in Dispatch from Bewilderness,
"Giving Good Headline"
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#writing #writingcommunity #authors #author #books #Booksky #braininjuries
"Giving Good Headline"
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#writing #writingcommunity #authors #author #books #Booksky #braininjuries
March 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A recent piece in Dispatch from Bewilderness,
"Giving Good Headline"
judithhannahweiss.substack.com/p/giving-goo...
#writing #writingcommunity #authors #author #books #Booksky #braininjuries
"Giving Good Headline"
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#writing #writingcommunity #authors #author #books #Booksky #braininjuries
Reposted by Judith Hannah Weiss
Any member of the military who did what they did on signal would be kicked out or arrested.
March 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Any member of the military who did what they did on signal would be kicked out or arrested.
"Cognition gets stranger, stronger, wronger moment by moment. I imagined my brain as a puzzle with pieces falling out. The “means” fall out. The “ends” fall out. The stuff I used to write about."
#writing #author #books #Booksky #braininjuries
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#writing #author #books #Booksky #braininjuries
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I started to speak in 2006
...A dispatch from bewilderness
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March 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"Cognition gets stranger, stronger, wronger moment by moment. I imagined my brain as a puzzle with pieces falling out. The “means” fall out. The “ends” fall out. The stuff I used to write about."
#writing #author #books #Booksky #braininjuries
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#writing #author #books #Booksky #braininjuries
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March 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Paying attention to the beauty that makes this world worth fighting for. In my Substack which is called "Dispatch from Bewilderness".
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#writing #poetry #freelance #brain
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#writing #poetry #freelance #brain
March 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Paying attention to the beauty that makes this world worth fighting for. In my Substack which is called "Dispatch from Bewilderness".
judithhannahweiss.substack.com
#writing #poetry #freelance #brain
judithhannahweiss.substack.com
#writing #poetry #freelance #brain
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March 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM