"If we’re really listening to each other then we can’t divide people into us or them. But we have to decide if we’re ready to see other people, all people, as human. Because once we do, we can’t turn our heads away any longer." -Squirrel Content Here Full Grown People x.com/FGPTweets/stat…

I absolutely loved this piece by Squirrel Content Here on what it means to truly see another human being. Thanks, Full Grown People for sending this to my inbox. #amwriting #writinglife #binders #compassion fullgrownpeople.com/2018/06/26/wei…

"I’m heavy with the weight of all I hold onto." Oh, damn, Dina L. Relles is such a powerhouse CNF writer, I can barely keep myself from flying apart reading her lovely things! This from Full Grown People that I didn't even known she'd written: fullgrownpeople.com/2016/03/15/att…

We're coming back! bit.ly/3zMbz2E

"It was the late sixties, and I was running all kinds of hot." The wonderful Abigail Thomas. fullgrownpeople.com/2021/11/04/tur…

“Geriatric,” my mother fumes. “Old people.” Susan Moldaw on aging—and ageism. Photo by Gina Easley fullgrownpeople.com/2021/12/02/old…

"My mother and I have shared a hospital room on my birthday twice in our lives. The first time we were joined by an umbilical cord. The second time, fifty-seven years later, by the coronavirus." @cshel718 (Michele Coppola) on COVID. fullgrownpeople.com/2022/01/13/the…

"I am trying, here, to reconcile a permanent record that can’t be graded." What's forgivable? @jessicahandler is back (yay)! fullgrownpeople.com/2022/01/27/per…

"Maybe my tree realized what was what." A short and lovely one by Eliza Thomas. fullgrownpeople.com/2022/02/03/my-…

"I have a nostalgia problem, and I'm not the only American who does." Check out DREADFUL SORRY: ESSAYS ON AN AMERICAN NOSTALGIA, out next month! bit.ly/DreadfulSorry

What an incredible, thought-provoking essay on anxiety by Dr. Amy Robillard. She weaves together so many complicated issues and yet she nails every beat. fullgrownpeople.com/2022/02/10/anx… #writingcommunity #anxiety Full Grown People

"Anxiety is future oriented, but it forestalls our ability to imagine a present for ourselves." The brilliant Dr. Amy Robillard . fullgrownpeople.com/.../anxiety-is…

“Wow. She’s weirder than I am,” I thought, touching the damp on my face, “and she doesn’t care.” Beth Kaplan's beauty of an essay about her childhood friend. fullgrownpeople.com/2022/02/17/sec…

“I’m really certain about this,” I told Mary. “This part, it’s very clear to me. I am not going to birth another baby, as amazing as my babies are.” Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser @standshadows on owning her body. fullgrownpeople.com/.../24/abortio…

"And because Putin wants what so long ago was, there are nearly 200,000 troops massed on the Ukrainian border." @BethKephart's truly great review of DREADFUL SORRY & how nostalgia is everywhere is up now Cleaver Magazine: cleavermagazine.com/dreadful-sorry…

Very excited to have written about Dreadful Sorry (Belt Publishing), by Jennifer Niesslein, for Chicago Review of Books. We talk about private nostalgia, public memories, and our collective and individual imaginations. Great book. Buy it! chireviewofbooks.com/2022/03/01/dre…

"I was going to live by myself for the first time in my life, and the thought overwhelmed but also excited me. Mostly excited." Nina B Lichtenstein (Nina B. Lichtenstein's) lovely essay on moving out. fullgrownpeople.com/.../an-impulsi…

Last Saturday I got to experience the before times by celebrating @JenniferNiesslein's book launch for Dreadful Sorry through Belt Publishing. I couldn't be more proud of her and this witty, timely, and poignant book. #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #amwriting Full Grown People

Who did your childhood crush became? The amazing Kristin Ohlson (@kristinohlson ). fullgrownpeople.com/2022/03/10/fol…