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CW/ Ableism, sanism. Violet used to go on a girls’ trip to Bermuda every spring with some of her close friends, but no one wanted to go this year (y’know, COVID). She’d been good, barely leaving the house, working from home, ordering groceries to be delivered, but she just couldn’t take it anymore. She needed

Featured image: Photo by Unseen Histories on Unsplash. Edited in Affinity Designer. Audio: recorded with Voice Recorder by quality apps, edited in Audacity.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now When I decided I was going to write

Featured image: Photo by LOGAN WEAVER from Unsplash. Edited in Affinity Designer. Audio: recorded with Voice Recorder by quality apps, edited in Audacity.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now (Long Edition: About a 6 minute read) If

I’m not usually into reading challenges, because they’re either “read an unrealistic amount of books this year” or “read these exact books.” Enter The Calm Scribe’s reading challenge. A list of 26 types of books. You pick the titles. I love this kind of list, because I’m normally sitting on dozens of unread books. I

Featured image: Photo by Louis Velazquez from Unsplash. Edited in Affinity Designer. Audio: recorded with Voice Recorder by quality apps, edited in Audacity.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now Recently, I attended an online discussion about love

Featured image: “A Statue of Massasoit” by Merelymel13 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Audio: recorded with Voice Recorder by quality apps, edited in Audacity.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now I think (hope) that most of us colonizers in the

Featured image: Photo by rmt from Pixabay. Audio: recorded with Voice Recorder by quality apps, edited in Audacity.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now There are a lot of calls for unity right now. A lot of

Featured image: Photo by Minnie Zhou from Unsplash.   4 for Now Odds are you’re more familiar than you’d like to be with all the stress and strife in the world. I believe that whatever the outcome of the U.S. election, our work is just getting started. But I also believe in taking time to

Featured image: Cropped from “Schiacciata alla fiorentina” by webos fritos. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   Due to intellectual difficulties, there is no audio for this week’s #4forNow.I apologize to everyone who listens to my posts. 4 for

Featured image: Photo by Tony Webster, edited in Affinity Designer. Free to use under CC BY 2.0 (explained here). Audio: recorded with Voice Recorder by quality apps, edited in Audacity.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now This needs

Featured image: Photos by Danil Aksenov and Ben Ashby from Unsplash, edited in Affinity Designer. Audio: recorded with Voice Recorder by quality apps, edited in Audacity.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now If you’ve spent any time on social

Featured image: Photos by Giorgio Trovato and Luke Michael from Unsplash, edited in Affinity Designer. Audio: recorded with Voice Recorder by quality apps, edited in Audacity.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now In the United States, supporting