Lifestyle
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A sign (and challenge) showing I’m not perfect? I haven’t picked up my tarot or oracle cards in a couple weeks when my morning routine revolved around my card pulls and incense smoke dancing through the air. Welcome back to our weekly divination time together. Let’s see what’s here for our community this week. New…
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I mentioned briefly looking for apartments; this was one of those early “days off” touring places. I wasn’t thrilled to be up at 6:00 for a 6:25 bus and a 7:10 train into Boston. I wasn’t thrilled about the heat or the MBTA/Uber marathon ahead of me. But I was excited to drift through Lynn…
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July, July…how you’ve flown by. This was probably the most life-pivoting July I’ve experienced thus far, new chapter manuscripts piling into my hands. Take a breather with me and look at some currents from July. North Shore Massachusetts I planned the first overnight family trip for July 4th; I didn’t plan on returning the next…
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73% suffer from mental illness. Only 39% would seek help. 51% of that 73% self-medicate with alcohol and/or drugs (54% and 50%, respectively). 19% of that 73% think the industry is trying to create a sustainable climate to succeed. That’s just a group of independent musicians surveyed by Record Union in 2019. The crew numbers…
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I’ve always had an eclectic ear; over time, my wardrobe’s echoed the same melody. My fashion sense at 33 is a swirl of every Jess that never left. I’m still the pink-loving little girl, the self-conscious tomboy, the depressed high school edgelord goth rocker, the hippie/whimsical phase that lasted maybe two months, and the metalhead…
