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Instead of a Diet, Try Sewing
stop blaming your body for a cultural problem
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what it takes to create a secular community
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Instead of a Diet, Try Sewing
stop blaming your body for a cultural problem
Jan 13
How to Make a “Church”
what it takes to create a secular community
Jan 6
Hallmark vs. Me
A pre-ChatGPT method of outsourcing the work of writing . . .
Dec 16, 2025
Bisquicks
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Scratch is a column that celebrates human agency in a culture awash in cheap consumer goods and A.I. It's about creating — instead of buying or simply accepting — the stuff, nature, and purpose of our lives. It's about what we make that makes us human.
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