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Words of the Week

by Erika Dreifus on September 6, 2018
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Image description: “Happy Birthday” cake (and the number 3).

 

 

“Just calm down and listen.”

Source: Liel Leibovitz, during this week’s third-birthday episode of one of my favorite podcasts, “Unorthodox,” from Tablet magazine.

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About Erika

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Erika Dreifus is a reader, writer, and literary advocate whose latest book, Birthright: Poems, was published by Kelsay Books in fall 2019. She is also the editor and publisher of The Practicing Writer, a free (and popular) e-newsletter that features opportunities and resources for fictionists, poets, and writers of creative nonfiction.

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