Jane’s Calamity

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From the Upper Verandah deck to the edge of the cliff
I'm back from Alaska, but I'm still facing the frontier.
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A supposedly fun thing I'm about to do
It's a cruise. I'm going on a cruise.
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I'm a loser, baby.
(But please don't kill me.) I just feel like I'm...losing things.
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You look like you could use a coach.
I now offer 5 valuable coaching services, including parental sarcasm, book coaching, and hiking snobbery.
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Old lady rants about AI, eats gruel
People's brains are atrophying, nobody cares that generative AI is theft, and we're all going to die.
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Five books to make you laugh
Because God knows we could use them right about now
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We all need a little shelter from the storm.
I've had mine for as long as I can remember. What's yours?
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Jane’s Calamity
Jane’s Calamity
Comitragic cogitations on a brazenly eclectic range of topics, including perimenopause, politics, writing, books, mortality, excess tupperware, and failing at mindfulness
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