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Let's Talk Online Dating: Third Thursday Discussion Thread
In this month of exploring DESIRE, I want to hear YOUR online dating stories, the good (the surprising?), the bad and the ugly, as I dip my toes into…
Feb 19
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In the body desire burns
Tell me, dear readers, how does desire live in your body? Does it refuse to be ignored? Join me in this Year of the Fire Horse, galloping towards what…
Feb 17
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Desire without play is not desire at all
In moments of child-like wonder in my weekly dance class, I abandon myself to desire in its true essence: play. Come along with me and let's get wild.
Feb 10
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Desire haunts me and won't let me go
I lie awake and think how much easier my life would be if desire did not consume me, if I could stop the wanting once and for all. And then I think…
Feb 3
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Curiouser and curiouser
Curiosity opens the door to the looking glass and beyond. This week, in the final essay in our 4-part series, Living in Radiance, what happens when all…
Jan 27
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What if home was not a fixed place but a lifelong journey?
Dec 2, 2025
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The 25 newsletters about life abroad I wish I'd had in my back pocket before moving to Barcelona
Aug 12, 2025
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Do I want to date again after 35 years?
Jul 23, 2024
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Friday Happy Hour: As a woman of many appetites, here’s what fed me on Substack this week
Jan 26, 2024
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Seeking joy in a world that wants to tear us apart
In part 3 of our four-part series for January, "Living in Radiance," why I'm defying the threats all around me to steal my joy, because no one has a…
Jan 20
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In the everyday moments, we find our radiance
Presence is the portal to radiance, my word of the year. Grounded in the present moment, I'm less likely to gaslight myself with my own aspirational…
Jan 13
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Amy Brown
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A Radiant Year
With RADIANCE as my word of the year for 2026, I will hold onto all that illuminates my path. Even when it's dark and we stumble, a light shines within…
Jan 6
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Coming home to ourselves, a lifelong journey
In this final Part 5 of the COMING HOME series, the ultimate return home: to oneself. It may take a lifetime to find one's way but there is no sweeter…
Dec 30, 2025
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Amy Brown
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Finding home in the rituals we carry with us
In Part 4 of the COMING HOME series, we explore the rituals that provide a sense of home no matter where we are in the world. These rituals have always…
Dec 23, 2025
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Home as Kinship: Finding Home in the People We Love
In part 3 of COMING HOME, we explore home as kinship, which for me is as much love ties as blood ties: any person who has entered my life and settled in…
Dec 16, 2025
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How place shapes us: the search for belonging
In part 2 of COMING HOME, we explore the geography of place in our search for belonging — the most human of desires.
Dec 9, 2025
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What if home was not a fixed place but a lifelong journey?
What does home mean to you? In December we explore the many rooms that open the door to ourselves in the series, "Coming Home." This week guest writer…
Dec 2, 2025
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Sadness comes for us all: Learning to be thankful for this gift
The final installment of the series exploring how the the Seven Deadly Sins constrain women, I explore sadness, once among the Eight Demonic Thoughts…
Nov 25, 2025
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Living in 3D
Life lessons in embracing desire in every decade from a late-blooming woman in her 60s, still in the process of becoming. We thrive by planting our roots in all three dimensions at once: mind, body and spirit.
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