#129: The trouble with “trying” - by Haley Nahman
I knew I wanted to write something personal for this newsletter, partly because it’s a famously reflective time (happy new year), and partly because I haven’t written directly about my life in a while, which was not an accident but a months-long act of avoidance.
Good morning! Hope your holiday was less cursed with travel issues and various surprise viruses than mine. Me bathing in my niece’s breath approximately 6 hours before she came down with the flu I knew I wanted to write something personal for this newsletter, partly because it’s a famously reflective time (happy new year), and partly because I haven’t written directly about my life in a while, which was not an accident but a months-long act of avoidance. At first the avoidance was tactical—I didn’t want strangers to know what was going on with me, even though I desperately wanted to write…
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