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Ellemeno

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Strikepocalypse: The Hot Labor Summer In Los Angeles

There’s no escaping the heat or the suffering — It’s 103 degrees. People file into the small sun filled backyard, music blares from hidden speakers. Middle aged men in cargo shorts and beer bellies carry cases of Bud or bottles of vodka. Best boys, key grips, camera operators. A few spray tanned actors with familiar faces mill about, beefy…

Hollywood

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Strikepocalypse: The Hot Labor Summer In Los Angeles
Strikepocalypse: The Hot Labor Summer In Los Angeles
Hollywood

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Human Parts

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Amplifying Resilience: Allies Must Get Loud Against Hate.

Lauri Carleton was a vital member of my community. — I’m sitting on my bed, early morning, before the sun and the neighbor’s yappy dog awaken, before storm clouds move in. I’m tracking Hurricane Hilary’s path from Mexico to my home in Los Angeles. Cool. I’m in the “high risk of flooding” zone. I open Instagram and see a post…

LGBTQ

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Amplifying Resilience: Allies Must Get Loud Against Hate.
Amplifying Resilience: Allies Must Get Loud Against Hate.
LGBTQ

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Human Parts

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These Are The Days For Tragic Optimism.

Viktor Frankl, finding meaning, getting through. — I’m sitting on my bed, still groggy, under-rested, over-caffeinated; legs outstretched on crumpled white sheets and a grey blanket sprinkled with dog hair and gluten free pretzel crumbs. I want to be one of those people who never eats in bed, irons their sheets (has them ironed by someone else!)…

Mental Health

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These Are The Days For Tragic Optimism.
These Are The Days For Tragic Optimism.
Mental Health

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Human Parts

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Adoption Is Trauma. Part 2.

1972. I’m sitting on the padded peeling black leather seat, bumping up and down in the little yellow school bus as it traverses pot holes. My raincoat is translucent, crisscrossed with red plaid, my soft brown curls pulled into pigtails. The bus pulls into the Robin Hill Nursery School parking…

Adoption

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Adoption Is Trauma.
Adoption Is Trauma.
Adoption

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Human Parts

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Menopause, Motherhood, And The Orca Whale.

Lessons on love and letting go. 6:40 am. Scrolling the internet, sipping coffee, procrastinating packing. I’m visiting my daughter, 24, now living 3,000 miles away. An amazing weekend together. Laughing, talking, long walks in the park. “How about I stay a little longer?” “I would love that.” So here I…

Menopause

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Menopause, Motherhood, And The Orca Whale.
Menopause, Motherhood, And The Orca Whale.
Menopause

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Sep 24

It’s Raining Men.

Sometimes, it all works out in the end. — Jenny Mulaney was many things — kind, smart, generous — athletic was not one of them. She preferred a sedentary life, a sit-on-the-couch, drink cheap red wine, eat cheesy pizza life. She had no Olympic aspirations, no Tour De France fantasies. Accountant by day, Netflix-and-chill by night, Jenny was happiest…

Flash Fiction

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It’s Raining Men.
It’s Raining Men.
Flash Fiction

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Ellemeno

·Jul 21

I Found My Father On The Internet And Meaning In A Masterpiece

Adoption, art, and ways to find ourselves — I don’t know why I woke up in the middle of the night. Excitement, I guess, but I woke up and saw her text. She was not in Barcelona, she was in Madrid. Fuck, what? No. Shit. So right there on my phone, in the dark, trying not to wake…

Memoir

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I Found My Father On The Internet And Meaning In A Masterpiece
I Found My Father On The Internet And Meaning In A Masterpiece
Memoir

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Thoughts And Ideas

·Jun 24

A Very Brief Tale About The Trauma Of Forced Birth.

We sat in the living room of his swanky Paris apartment, a tall blonde Slovakian maid in formal dress quietly delivered a silver tray with a plate of cookies and then discreetly disappeared. Andrew, my birth mother’s husband, sat stiffly in a chair, his ankles crossed revealing elegant navy cashmere…

Abortion Rights

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A Very Brief Tale About The Trauma Of Forced Birth.
A Very Brief Tale About The Trauma Of Forced Birth.
Abortion Rights

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Human Parts

·Jun 22

Good Grief.

Small thoughts for big feelings. CW: Suicide and death. My son and I drive the few blocks to the synagogue in pained silence. There are no words for driving to the funeral of a young man who took his own life. Too young. Too soon. I park on the street…

Grief And Loss

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Good Grief.
Good Grief.
Grief And Loss

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Thoughts And Ideas

·Jan 22

Pivot Or Die.

On growing older and growing up. The white-haired man with a lined and pocked face told me he used to be a television sitcom director, he said humbly, “you may have heard of some shows” before telling me how a decade ago he collapsed under the pressure and found himself…

This Is Us

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Pivot Or Die.
Pivot Or Die.
This Is Us

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Screenwriter. Essayist. Wannabe Novelist. Adoptee. www.themindystern.com

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