by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Jan 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
It’s time for a new scouting organization.“I’ve got it: Honey Badger Scouts,” says my indomitable friend Becca. We’re watching our kids run around on the playground before school while brainstorming a hypothetical rebrand for Girl Scouts in the wake of the 2016...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Jan 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Three things making me smirk on this most horrific of inauguration daysI think this bunny is my new mascot:I highly recommend watching “Mindfulness in a world that’s lost its mind.” To view, click here.An oldie but goodie, and still entirely relevant for today: Take...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Jan 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Revisiting Peggy Orenstein’s Flux at 25, leaving Twitter and Meta, micro-dosing hopeDear Friend,Today’s 3 Fluxlandish Things is sponsored by Feminism, a cause that continues to inform much of my writing. I seem to have a thing about f-words.Back in the early...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Jan 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Some things take time. They just do.Dear Word Friends,With the new year underway, there’s a pile of new year/new you offers slamming my Inbox with fevered pitch. Yours too? Some of these offers tempt me. Who doesn’t want to learn from meditation teacher Tara Brach,...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Jan 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
A theme that’s catching my attention right now.Dear Friend,I’m beginning to sense a theme to this season of midlife that I’m in, raising teenagers while mourning the loss of my mother, starting new ventures while letting go of others. It’s a period when the...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Dec 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
A seasonal photo essay for a season of great flux. Along with Jewish schoolchildren everywhere, I love it when the lunar-based Jewish calendar and the Gregorian calendar (the internationally accepted civil calendar used in Western Christendom) sync up. The world feels...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Dec 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
For the first time, I’m offering shorter bursts of writing coaching, to help more people write their resistance, whatever form that takes (op-eds, essays, books, talks, and, yes, Substacks)Pull up a chair and write with me.Dear Rabble Rousers, Disrupters,...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Dec 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
A roundup of 3 things I’m currently paying attention to, posted every other Wednesday from the land of flux.Dear Friend,Today begins my first biweekly Wednesday roundup. Off we go: Nothing says “flux” like coming to terms with the loss of a national treasure....
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Dec 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
A very tiny essayI’ve signed my fifteen-year-old twins up for driver’s ed.They start in February—a month of freezing temperatures, ice, and snow.I’m skittish from a car accident.I scream easily.So, my 83-year old father—the man who taught me to drive in a parking lot...
by Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | Dec 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Here’s what this newsletter will be about, and how you, too, can join the party. Image: Em & FriendsThanks for reading WHAT THE ACTUAL FLUX! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Dear Friend,I’m a writer who has been through a thing or...
