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1 week ago |
lgumbinner.substack.com | Liz Gumbinner
Dee O’Brien was the teacher who made an eighth-grader fall in love with Shakespeare and Emily Brontë and Kate Bush. She taught with a voice bigger than her body, and a persona far bigger than her voice. She could recite sonnets from memory and wore purple as a rule. Sometimes, while reading a passage out loud in the wonderfully exuberant way that she did, her long black hair fell to the front and covered her chunky lucite 80s jewelry. She’d flip it back and I could stare at her earrings again.
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2 weeks ago |
lgumbinner.substack.com | Liz Gumbinner
Now that I’ve gotten yesterday’s emotion dump out of my system…welcome back to Things I Love. There are a lot of good things and small joys in the world and I really do love finding them and sharing them with other people. Today’s list includes a life-changing quote, a movie worth streaming, a movie worth paying for, a collection of hilarious Instagram videos, the bag I’m desperately coveting, the homes I’m desperately coveting, and what I’m drinking now that the weather is warmer.
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2 weeks ago |
lgumbinner.substack.com | Liz Gumbinner
A few weeks ago, I posted a simple statement on Threads. Just something I was feeling in the moment. You don’t even need to name him and we know exactly who you mean, said one commenter. The most relatable words I’ve read in a long time, said another. I keep trying to let it go, but every day there are new injustices and insults and outrages, wrote my friend Alexis.
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3 weeks ago |
lgumbinner.substack.com | Liz Gumbinner
I have often sent my children out the door yelling, “Have fun storming the castle!”Or sometimes I say, “Have a great time tonight! Be safe! Make good choices!”I’ve always thought of this as my core job: To keep my children happy and healthy and safe, of course — but also to grow them into adults who make good choices. Even and especially when I’m not around. This weekend, my youngest daughter turned 18. An adult. I am now officially aparent of adults. Plural. Which is a whole thing.
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1 month ago |
lgumbinner.substack.com | Liz Gumbinner
“Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of thirty dolls, you know, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally,” says the guy whose four-year-old son owned tens of dollars worth of stuffed animals and ride-on toys, when he was asked about the increasing impact of his fakakte tariffs. I’m Walking Here is entirely reader-supported and 100% broligarch-free. Subscribe to get new posts in your inbox.
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