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July 2025

Permission to Live a "Big Juicy Creative Life" [Pre-Writing Retreat Reflections]
On Overcoming Resistance and Reckoning with Joy in a World of Starvation and Suffering
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Kristin Vanderlip
The Divine Gift of Surprise Goodness
A reminder for the ones who tend to imagine and expect the worst
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Kristin Vanderlip
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What They Did to the Fireflies, and the Least of These
Reflections on cruelty, power, and the rise of dehumanizing regimes and questions I'm asking [plus, prompts]
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Kristin Vanderlip
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Prompt: The Warmer Side of Grief*
Pen & Mend Journal Prompt (No. 71) On Nostalgia, Memory, and Sacred Spaces That Can Reconnect Us to What We've Lost
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Kristin Vanderlip

June 2025

May 2025

The Gift of a Good Metaphor [from the Sea]
On impatience—and how sea glass is helping me write again and heal
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Kristin Vanderlip
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"Writing Gives You You." —Anne Lamott
Writerly Insights and What Met Me in the Room with Maggie Smith and Anne Lamott
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Kristin Vanderlip
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Prompt: Are you being curious—or are you gaslighting yourself?
Pen & Mend Journal Prompt (No. 69) On Asking Questions and Discerning the Difference Between Curiosity (Exploration) vs. Gaslighting (Erasure)
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Kristin Vanderlip
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What I Hope They Remember
Reflections On Brokenness, Motherhood, and Loving My Sons (and Myself) After Losing My Daughter
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Kristin Vanderlip
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You Don’t Have to Be Overwhelmed by Grief—or a Blank Page
You're invited to Write Your Grief: a sacred monthly pause to tend to your pain through journaling.
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Kristin Vanderlip
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