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The Hundred Day Reckoning: A Creative Response to Hard Change
Or, How I Turned my Mother into an Ancestor in 365 Not-So-Easy Steps
Sep 10, 2025
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Love for the Fractured Story
Alumni Spotlight: Theater Maker, Writer, and Consultant Rebecca Novick
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What Don’t You Know? A Writing Prompt to Shift Towards Wonder
A Writing Prompt to Shift Towards Wonder
Mar 4
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Four Playwrights Raise Our Dead
Julia Izumi, Nambi E. Kelley, Sarah Ruhl, and I talk legacy, ghosts, and grieving under capitalism.
Feb 25
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Where'd You Get That Story?
Or, Why The Hundred Day Reckoning?
Feb 18
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What’s Going On? A Writing Prompt to Reset
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I RECKONED
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The Opposite of A.I. or, Why Type a Journal?
Dec 10, 2025
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The Biggest Possible Picture
Nov 12, 2025
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IN THE CARDS: GRIEF, CANCER, SHARKS, AND A CONCERT
Guest Post by Janet Malia Allard
Feb 4
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What’s Going On? A Writing Prompt to Reset
Foreground and Background
Jan 28
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We Interrupt this Reckoning for More Reckoning: Minneapolis, a Loss for Words
the quaint habit of dialogue
Jan 21
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The Archived Life
Or why a German sociologist’s obsessive notemaking system can bring reason and meaning to your hot mess of a journal.
Jan 14
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Why I Hate Fresh Starts
A fresh start is my nightmare.
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Easy Listening end of 2025
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The Hundred Day Reckoning
A Guggenheim-awarded playwright (me) mines ancient dramatic principles and a range of current wisdom to expand creativity, capacity, and freedom in the face of real-life human drama (a.k.a. yours). Posts every Wednesday.
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