Hi friends,
Welcome to Issue 16 of Send My Love to Anyone where you will find a new story from Francine Cunningham’s debut short story collection God Isn’t Here Today, a poem by Samantha Jones, and my take on sharing ideas before they’re hatched.
Issue 16 Recommendations can be found below!
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Kathryn
Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 16
Send My Love to Anyone Recommendations!
“Jasmine’s Brows and Cuts” by Rachel Lachmansingh
Congrats to Rachel Lachmansingh who’s short story was published in the Spring 2022 issue of The Puritan
Jasmine doesn’t do advertisements. Since her early 20s, she’s been staunchly anti-capitalist, believes ads are, at best, meaningless propaganda that only serve the ruling class. But she’s a businesswoman now and step one in becoming a #GirlBoss is putting yourself out there. At the Staples Copy and Print counter, she stares at a gloss-finish poster that reads JASMINE’S BROWS AND CUTS in Pinterest-ready cursive. The A in Jasmine and O in brow are substituted with two wonky asters, both missing half their petals. She stayed up till midnight designing the poster in Canva.
Read more of “Jasmine’s Brows and Cuts” in The Puritan.
I’m doing Jami Attenberg’s #1000wordsofsummer challenge. It starts June 4:
A range of disability ‘Bechdel tests’:
A review of “The Book of Grief and Hamburgers” by Stuart Ross
New series from The Tyee
New publishing program from Dionne Brand:
Some interesting writing website recommendations here:
The Art of Teaching Writing:
Sarah Polley’s new book:
On The Superficial Diversity of Canadian TV by Soraya Roberts:
The value of boring tasks:
On ADHD:
I particularly relate having recently been diagnosed myself.
New short story by Zoe Whittall:
Here’s great webinar from the FOLD with Amanda Leduc:
How Your Brain Conjures Dreams
You dream for two hours every night, but for something so common, it’s a remarkably enigmatic process. Only in the past few decades, with the advance of technology like fMRIs that lets us record and visualize activity in the brain, have neuroscientists begun to figure out how and why we experience these reveries. While sleepy interludes seem to rely on many of the same mental processes we use while awake, researchers are still trying to understand the way they work together during slumber. Here’s how we think our brains drive our nocturnal hallucinations.
Read more about how your brain conjures dreams
How to Stand Up for Yourself
No one sets out to be a doormat. Yet some people are chronically passive, always putting other’s needs before their own. These are the folks who end up babysitting for an acquaintance instead of going to their yoga class. In the long run, being unable to express what you want is a recipe for perpetual dissatisfaction, because your needs always end up on the back burner. The good news is people can learn to ask for the things they want at home, at work and even at a local restaurant when you get a burnt steak and want a new one.
Read more about how to stand up for yourself by Catherine Saint Louis
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Some good advice:
Issue #16 of Send My Love to Anyone
“Asleep Till You’re Awake” by Francine Cunningtom from God Isn’t Here Today: Stories
“On Not Sharing Ideas Before They Are Hatched” by Kathryn Mockler
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