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Protecting My Ears Helped Me to Embrace This Aging Body

It’s never too late to take care of yourself. — When my friend asked me if I wanted to go see the band Foreigner at a local outdoor concert venue, at first I balked. I’m a fan of their hits but not necessarily the biggest fan of the band. Add to that, they were playing at the Shoreline Amphitheatre which…

Rock And Roll

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Protecting My Ears Helped Me to Embrace This Aging Body
Protecting My Ears Helped Me to Embrace This Aging Body
Rock And Roll

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The Narrative Arc

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Opting out of Oppenheimer: My Father’s Atomic Obsession

The American tale of a nuclear family — In July 1945 the first detonation of a nuclear weapon happened in the New Mexico desert. It happened at a place called the Trinity Site. Until just a few months ago, a large part of the modern world had forgotten, didn’t know, or didn’t really care about that fact. The…

Memoir

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Opting out of Oppenheimer: My Father’s Atomic Obsession
Opting out of Oppenheimer: My Father’s Atomic Obsession
Memoir

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How to Thrive as the Villain In Another Person’s Story

Or, learning that I don’t have to be the good girl anymore. — The silliest thing happened to me on a recent airplane flight. After I thought about the whole thing for way too long, I realized with clarity that I was the villain in another person’s story. Owing to a strict and quite Catholic upbringing, I’ve spent so much of my life…

Middle Pause

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How to Thrive as the Villain In Another Person’s Story
How to Thrive as the Villain In Another Person’s Story
Middle Pause

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The Narrative Arc

·Sep 22

Trash Piles, Wildfires, and Metaphors Are All Things I Found In My Driveway Today

The last day of summer — Once a year the trash company that services my local community hosts a “clean up week.” It’s sort of an olly-olly-oxen-free for getting rid of the kind of stuff that you can’t donate or might be too big to put in your car and take to the dump. It’s somehow…

Change

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Trash Piles, Wildfires, and Metaphors Are All Things I Found In My Driveway Today
Trash Piles, Wildfires, and Metaphors Are All Things I Found In My Driveway Today
Change

5 min read


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Middle-Pause

·Sep 18

New Mexico’s State Cookie is a Little Taste of Home

Anise and cinnamon-flavored memories — As summer gives way to fall, inevitably I begin to get homesick. It starts as a quiet longing and soon grows to a sense of both sadness and urgency. New Mexico, where I grew up, is beautiful any time of the year. Autumn is when it really shows its true…

Food

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New Mexico’s State Cookie is a Little Taste of Home
New Mexico’s State Cookie is a Little Taste of Home
Food

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The Shortform

·Aug 13

Face Value

The passion of the font choice — When change occurs solely for the sake of change, my natural reaction is to resist. Which is how I categorize the news that Microsoft is changing its default font. A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has arrived Introducing Aptos, our modern successor to Calibrimedium.com Fonts matter, both because I am a writer and because I review documents for a living.

Nonfiction

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Face Value
Face Value
Nonfiction

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·Aug 10

Chalk Therapy

My hopes and dreams deserve more than a wall — While reading the book “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone” I was introduced to the concept of “Before I die” walls. Started as an art project in New Orleans, it’s been adopted by several other cities. A wall where people can chalk out an answer to the question: Before I…

Nonfiction

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Chalk Therapy
Chalk Therapy
Nonfiction

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The Narrative Arc

·Aug 10

My Flameless Pants

Telling the truth in a world that rewards fiery pants — A friend recently shared an adorable little meme on Instagram. It was really meant to be targeted to the GenX crowd and to elicit a little laugh. To be honest, the meme made me a little bit anxious. …

Memoir

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My Flameless Pants
My Flameless Pants
Memoir

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The Narrative Arc

·Jul 17

Can You Picture That?

Finding my way back to a band I first came to know and love back in 1976 — Over the years, my friends and I have talked about the songs that make up the soundtrack of our lives. We get in a groove where we name songs or throw out band names followed by a collective “yesss!” …

Nonfiction

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Can You Picture That?
Can You Picture That?
Nonfiction

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In for a Penny

·Jun 10

Six Decent Ways to Respond to a Prickly Person

Keep these tips handy, you just might need them — After these past three years, as I’m emerging from the relative safety and comfort of my home, I’m finding that the world isn’t exactly as I left it. People seem to be, shall we say… a little on edge. I get it, we’re all a little tired from the scare…

Self Help

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Six Decent Ways to Respond to a Prickly Person
Six Decent Ways to Respond to a Prickly Person
Self Help

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Karen Fayeth

Karen Fayeth

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I work all day, I art all night. Find me at karenfayeth.com and karenfayeth on all the socials (Twitter, Insta, FB, etc)

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