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On Stinkbugs
It’s one of those days where I’ve had too much caffeine.
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Alicia Kenworthy
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Confessions of a Restaurant Hostess
Barcelona Wine Bar always had a two-and-a-half to three-hour wait list. We maintained it with paper and No. 2 pencil. When the line got that long I…
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Be back soon...
I’ve gotten a few really kind e-mails lately asking if I’m OK and when I’ll be back on Substack, and the answer is yes yes yes, soon!
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Alicia Kenworthy
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One Reason I Hate Ice Breakers is I Always Overshare
If you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be and does this exercise make you as uncomfortable as it does me?
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Alicia Kenworthy
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F-Cups and Fluorescent Lighting
(Thoughts on lingerie and reading Grace Paley in a post-Roe era)
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Calcification
Have you ever heard a friend’s work voice for the first time? he asks. The question throws me back to cusp-of-30; Friends who talk system integrations…
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But What if I'm a Donkey?
Scattered thoughts on heartbreak, cages, and Glennon Doyle
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A Whale of a Problem
Mark is cheating on us. He delivers the news matter-of-factly, almost under his breath, to fill an already awkward pause in conversation. None of us…
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This is why God made Emojis
Re: Ted Mosby, Writer's Block and "Check Yes or No"
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Alicia Kenworthy
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Hyperbaric Oxygen & Finnegan's Wake
I should be in an airport in Miami right now, en route to Costa Rica, for a writing retreat.
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Prelude to a Reckoning
Notes on an Overdue Return
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Even a Georgia Peach
On Australian Cattle Dogs, Hamster Trauma, and some guy named Kevin
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