by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Oct 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
Redux of “Vidui in Honor of My Mother, My Husband’s Closed Starbucks Store, and Our Aching World.” (If you are a subscriber who read the original post, please feel free to ignore!)Dear Lovely People Who Have Asked Me to Share What I Read Aloud on Yom...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Sep 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
TLDR: Live, change, breathe. And maybe dance.Dear Friends,It’s an introspective time of year. And because I’m a sharer, I’m sharing some of my introspecting out loud here with you. Introspecting in four parts, with subheads, if you will.If you’re the kind of human who...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Aug 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is all there is. And sometimes, this is sh*t. (Trigger alert: no positive pablum found here.)Dear Friends in Fluxlandia,I’ve been sick this past week with severe cold-like symptoms but not-COVID. My dear Rabbi, who I now work with, has been more seriously laid...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Aug 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
Both/and now.Today in lake, strength training in the apocalpyse edition.Dear Fluxlandish Friends,It’s been a while. I’d apologize for not writing, but I’ve been busy gathering my shards. Substack felt like an “extra,” and I didn’t feel like it was a choice. But I’m...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Apr 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Guest Essay by Sarah ButtenwieserSomewhere in the dazed early months of pandemic sequestration, I was taking one of a thousand walks around our neighborhood while listening to a podcast. These walks felt like outings. The scenery changed from the inside of our house...
by Debi Lewis | Mar 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Guest Essay by Debi LewisShe was sixteen and one of the best callers at the long, brown folding tables I oversaw. I was fluffed-up at nineteen with my new title of Supervisor, earned after a year of telephone fundraising for progressive, liberal causes. Our task that...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Feb 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Tell Us Your Story About a Moment of FluxDear Friends,It’s ugly times out there, with change (or threats thereof) happening more quickly than we can absorb. We need activism. We need calls to Congress. We need to chop wood, carry water, repeat. We need each other....
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Feb 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Dystopian Scene at Walgreens, by Angela ValavanisAngela Valavanis is a working mom trying to stay sane in this crazy time. She is the owner and founder of Creative Coworking and Colvin House Events in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. She writes in her limited spare...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Feb 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Gratitude journal entry on a day of struggle.
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Feb 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Maggie Jackson’s latest book, I heart experts, and a candle Dear Friends,I’m picking back up after a short hiatus. You know how sometimes worlds—the one outside, the one in our heads—conspire to send our thoughts into anxious loops and shut down our words? How...
