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1/25/21 Covid-19 Update: Link to my other newsletter :)
I can't keep track anymore of my different email lists --- so I think I'm just going to keep my other personal newsletter going from now on (I'm not too…
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Alison J
1/14/21 Covid-19 Update: Please don't hate me
The girl who cried variant
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Alison J

August 2020

8/24 Covid-19 Update: "Perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness"
2,757.6 miles, five states, several magical hot springs, and zero (!!) speeding tickets later, I’m back home in Seattle. I tiptoed my way back onto the…
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Alison J
8/16 Covid-19 Update: "Joy is not made to be a crumb"
(Note: There are no actual covid updates in this email, so stop reading now if that's what you're here for) "Whenever I go on a trip, I think about all…
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Alison J

June 2020

6/20 Covid-19 Update: "It really does feel like the U.S. has given up"
I was just following the news of Trump's rally in Tulsa and decided I needed to get off my phone and do something more productive. Today is the longest…
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Alison J
6/5 Covid-19 Update: "Weeks where decades happen"
"There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen." - Vladimir Lenin (A few nights of protest and apparently I consider…
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Alison J

May 2020

5/30 Covid-19 Update: "Like making it easier for us to breathe"
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with…
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Alison J
5/23 Covid-19 Update: "Let America be America again— The land that never has been yet"
This was my moody teenager week of quarantine... complaining to myself about being bored, but rolling my eyes at any suggestion I came up with to…
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Alison J
5/16 Covid-19 Update: "Before the irrevocable choices"
I was on a work call this week where we were talking through scenarios for when we might come back to the office, and someone just casually dropped "End…
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Alison J
5/8 Covid-19 Update: "And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason"
Hi friends, The covid newsletter almost did an Irish goodbye this week. When I started writing this, it was because I wanted to make use of the wealth…
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Alison J
5/1 Covid-19 Update: One Day More
I have nothing to say today (first time for everything) - but lots of links! I hope you all experience at least one thing in the next 48 hours that…
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Alison J

April 2020

4/28 Covid-19 Update: Who can stop us from celebrating?
I started watching Orthodox (highly recommend!) on Netflix, about a young girl living in modern Brooklyn as part of a Hasidic Jew community who flees…
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Alison J
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