Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott, Baseball and the SCA
ByJehanne Bening March 21, 2025March 5, 2025

Lately, I’ve been reading Anne Lamott’s book Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. I’m almost at the end, and something she wrote about being a Giants baseball fan really stuck with me: …the bigger point of baseball, that that it can give us back ourselves. We are a crowd animal, a highly…

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Overcoming Jealousy in SCA Creative Pursuits
ByJehanne Bening March 14, 2025February 27, 2025

The other day, I curled up with Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird. It’s a book I’d been meaning to read for ages as writers everywhere recommend it and for good reason. Lamott makes the struggles of writing feel both universal and strangely comforting. I was nodding along and agreeing with what she wrote. I even…

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