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May 2025

vacationing while being a caregiver.
How I Will Attempt to Enjoy Myself While My Mother Knits Her Flag of Doom*
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Elissa Altman
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we are not in pieces.
A mid-week list of good things that are holding me together
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Elissa Altman
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why gardening, and why now?
On the Instinct for Beauty and Life
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Elissa Altman
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committing to the asparagus
On Sustenance and Being Right Where You Are
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Elissa Altman
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The Intrusion.
on psychic noise, creativity, and silence-as-luxury
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Elissa Altman
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April 2025

please stop and take a breath, please
It's mid-week, and I have some good things to share with you.
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Elissa Altman
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an unbreakable cord to everything else
Planting Your Peas and Minding the Moon [with RECIPE]
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Elissa Altman
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A Conversation with Debbie Millman
In Celebration of Her New Book, Love Letter to a Garden
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Elissa Altman
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Debbie Millman
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1:10:34
"How many women's stories are not being told because they have been warned against it?"
Talking life, love, your mother lying about your age and learning to give yourself permission, with Elissa Altman
Published on The Shift With Sam Baker • 
remembering an Italian soup on a cold spring day
On the Perils of Cooking From Memory [RECIPE]
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Elissa Altman
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