https://open.substack.com/pub/anneelrodwhitney/p/whats-keeping-me-writing-this-week-f8b?r=3bm6p6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Yes! I have indeed been writing! And Taylor Swift is involved. Sort of. Go ahead; read about it.
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I am the worst habit-former in the world. My longest streak on the latest habits-and-routines app I am using (Fabulous is really fabulous) is a whopping TWO DAYS. (And that’s not two days of anything ambitious; that’s two days of waking, drinking water, taking pills, and clicking in the app that I did so. Which, for the record, simply means touching…
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Happy to share this piece from over at my Substack. It’s part of what I think will be a new book, memoir-ish and full of my shitshow trauma learning over the last few years. And, yes, this means I am writing again! Embarrassing stories from middle school are a great way to rip off the bandaid…
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It felt strong. It felt brave. It felt powerful. It also felt sad. Unexpectedly, desolately sad. I’ve always said “When I have an emotion, I’m usually last to know.” That’s not really true of me anymore, but for years I was always reacting to Big Feelings but almost never knowing which feelings, or why. I’m sure the reasons are as…
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Yesterday I and a few other people abused by my childhood coach saw him sentenced to prison in Texas. Ricardo Delgado’s story in the San Antonio Express-News here. Zachary Taylor Wright’s story in MySA here. I gave an impact statement, right to his face, and will need some time to know exactly how I feel about it… except proud. The…
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I have a writing hangover. It’s that feeling I get when there’s been something I wanted to write, or needed to write, and haven’t been able to, and then I finally do. It felt SO good to complete and send it off, but MAN I feel hung over. Do you get writing hangovers? I do, especially with big and important…
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It’s April Fools Day, and I can’t take a joke. Like, at all. Every time I’ve been fooled or pranked or tricked, the way I feel is not amused, but ashamed. It feels like everyone set against me, like I‘ve brought shame upon myself by falling for it. I know, party pooper, right? I blame long-undiagnosed autism and the aftershocks…
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What a day of wonder. I’m in Austin, TX, Texas being my homeland and site of a whole lot of memories of all colors and temperatures. Today I tagged along with a coalition of survivors of child sexual abuse representing several different advocacy organizations as well as themselves. We were there to educate legislators and their staff about SOL reform…
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www.fox7austin.com/news/survivors-protest-texas-bill-child-sex-abuse-statute-limitations-austin-capitol