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Let’s get Person-al
Oct 28, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al

🌰 the mummy - a movie review

Note: This review makes it easy to avoid spoilers.

Chronicles of Miss Miseria
Oct 27, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

OctPoWriMo Day 27. Two Questions Before the Clock Strikes

OctPoWriMo Day 27. Too Big To FailOne thing I love about poetry is the way poems can manipulate time. A poem can represent the real time it takes to read it, or an entire lifetime. It can encapsula...

Let’s get Person-al
Oct 27, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al

🌰 Sammy Keyes - a book review

Sammy Keyes is a middle grade mystery series centering a young girl living illegally with her grandmother. This review does not contain spoilers. What Works the choice of characters feels realistic...

The Newsletter Leaf Journal
Oct 25, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLI 〜 Mahiru, Allen, and George

Welcome to the 251st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...

Let’s get Person-al
Oct 25, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al

🌰 excavations - a book review

Note: this review contains spoilers What I Loved Skillfully crafted three-dimensional characters which enables the book to be about more than the plot. complicated nature of motherhood, the trauma ...

Let’s get Person-al
Oct 25, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al

🌰 it’s hard to savor the end when you don’t know it’s coming

You gotta savor the ending of a good book. When you know it’s the last page or paragraph you can slow down and really feel what the characters are feeling. With audiobooks and ebooks, though, it’s ...

Improve Something Today
Oct 21, 2025 from Improve Something Today

‘Undiscussables’ 45 years later: still here, still bad & somehow even worse

Revisiting Argyris’ ‘undiscussables’ as emergent, unwanted behaviors & as features of organizational control. Keeping courage, showing kindness.

BEEW
Oct 19, 2025 from BEEW

Proofs of Wonder

On May 20, 1999, just after five in the morning, my daughter was born. If you've been in that room, you know. Reality splits in two. Awe, terror, love, relief, all of it flooding in at once. The ro...

Let’s get Person-al
Oct 13, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al

🌰 poor things - a movie review

Note that the following review contains spoilers.

Improve Something Today
Oct 07, 2025 from Improve Something Today

The undefined moon: notes for October 2025

Readings on sneaker manufacturing, a dismal vision from the 1960s, & Wendell Berry on ‘provision.’ Plus two upcoming events.

Let’s get Person-al
Oct 05, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al

🌰 the difference between ai and an intern

With an AI agent, you need to validate its output every time. With interns, at some point they can prove that they will always learn from feedback how to do a specific task. With AI, it’s less dete...

Let’s get Person-al
Oct 05, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al

🌰 wedding people - a book review

Warning: this book involves attempted suicide and therefore this review mentions that in passing

The Autodidacts
Sep 21, 2025 from The Autodidacts

Quality, Quantity, and Effective Iteration

The blogosphere abounds with free advice, and one of the more frequently-repeated morsels is to “be prolific”, and quality will naturally follow. The following story, from Art & Fear by David Bayle...

Silence Calling
Sep 15, 2025 from Silence Calling

The Breath of Fire

Sound of my master All over in me His breath in my being That sharp heartful bleeding gong of Shiva

Silence Calling
Sep 08, 2025 from Silence Calling

Mountain of a Man

How is it that A man can have the presence of a mountain? A mountain like the grandeur of the Great Himalayas.

Noahie's Blog
Sep 05, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

Ideas and Ideals

So things have been coming back up the back half of this week. I feel fortunate that I have more energy and don't have the same cloud as usual looming over me. An interesting thing happened yesterd...

Noahie's Blog
Sep 03, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

Regulating the Mental Cache

It's been a while since I've written anything here, and there a few reasons for that. First, I got depressed again. I thought I had gotten over my last episode but was only okay for like a few days...

Noahie's Blog
Aug 24, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

Reflections on Psychiatric History

Over the last 24 to 36 hours or so, I've had a major uptick in mood. I remember I had a healing sort of dream where I got my feelings out to some characters from my dreams and weirdly enough, I wok...

Noahie's Blog
Aug 22, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

Drowned in Fatigue

I haven't come here to write in a while because I've been extremely tired and depressed. Over the last week or so, I've spent most of my time asleep. As I am writing this entry, my fatigue persists...

Noahie's Blog
Aug 22, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

Pocket Knife

This is a rewrite of an old story I wrote back in 2020 and was initially published on Substack. This isn't a major rewrite—just some revisions to make it flow better and have a bit more logic to it...

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