📢 IT’S OFFICIAL: Our debut issue is live! Sixteen beautiful short-shorts, micros, & flash by Neema Avashia, Sonja Livingston, Monica Prince—ROADMAP AVAILABLE NOW!, Rajpreet, Dr. LaTanya McQueen (Tanya), Elena Zhang (on bsky), Blair Glaser, @byjenrodriguez, Donna Cameron, @woollywordsmith & others inshortjournal.com/home/our-issue…

With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more

Sometimes you just want something sweet. And today’s featured short-short has that in spades. Read “The Heart Fills In” by Blair Glaser here: inshortjournal.com/blair-glaser/

“There is only one reason to invite your demon(s) to tea. Not to ‘hear its story’ in some misguided love-heals-” — Blair Glaser link.medium.com/28EvCi7kHKb

It’s launch day!!! TAKE ME HOME is officially released into the world! 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you, Belle Point Press! Link to order: bellepointpress.com/products/take-…

We love the way today’s featured micro tells the story of one moment, one encounter, that is really about so much more. Read “Enough” by Monica Prince—ROADMAP AVAILABLE NOW! here: inshortjournal.com/monica-prince/

Our final featured piece got us with its title, which does so much work in terms of context. Read “Swiped Wrong” by Cheryl Snell here: inshortjournal.com/cheryl-snell/

Project 25 Page 592 Eliminates overtime pay. “F**king Vote

If you keep talking about the assassination attempt don’t you dare tell the kids who survive school shootings and their families to “just get over it” What happened today is unacceptable and what happens every day to kids who aren’t the president and don’t survive isn’t either.

This wisdom has a bigger impact on the world around you than you'd think

Actually, reading the comments is a great way to become part of the cultural conversation, write responsive essays, and drive your own work. More at Dinty W. Moore brevity.wordpress.com/2024/07/16/do-…

Proud to reveal the cover for The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared, out from Motina Books on February 18, 2025. Huge thanks to @peterselgin for a design that captures it all with such impact, and to Claire Bidwell Smith for her beautiful endorsement.

TYSM Gregg & Bob Vanourek (leadership authors) "Email is not a place to show your anger. It creates a chain reaction of trouble you did not intend." ~ Kate Nasser buff.ly/4cYZ5J7 by Kate Nasser cc: SmartBrief SB on Leadership #email #communication #PeopleSkills #Quotes #BizTips #LeadChange

Joe Biden has been one of America’s most consequential presidents, as well as a dear friend and partner to me. Today, we’ve also been reminded – again – that he’s a patriot of the highest order. Here’s my full statement: barackobama.medium.com/my-statement-o…

Gorgeous cover

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I’m grateful to @shanecroucher for publishing this essay with Newsweek commemorating 9/11 and my 23rd wedding anniversary- two events that will always be connected for me. newsweek.com/my-wedding-coi…

JD Vance on Taylor Swift: “I don't think many people are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans.”

Thanks @mervatim for your insightful 2023 The New Yorker article about transference in higher ed. Me and colleague Dick Nodell were inspired to share how to handle it, pubbed today at T & F -tandfonline.com/eprint/FIKZREC…

When your friends are funnier than you are- love this from Double J Cox 🦓 for Weekly Humorist! Now I need to go stretch…