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Writer, mom, podcaster, feminist, traveler, cat/dog lady, extroverted hermit, Portlander. Dear Sugar. Find my podcast, newsletter, etc, at the link!
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Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar

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By Cheryl Strayed Verified
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Hello friends, The simple question how are you? has become complicated for me since my dear husband Brian died in May. I am wrecked. I’m blasted to smithereens. I am so very sad. I’m either crying myself to sleep at night or lying in my bed not crying, frozen in pain. I’m waking and thinking okay Cheryl, let’s survive another day. I’m shaking with sorrow at the grocery store. I’m empty inside. I don’t know if I’ll ever be happy again.
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Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar

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Hello friends! It’s time for another installment of my occasional Tells Us series, in which I ask an author to tell us about five things. Today, I’m taking a bit of extra delight in featuring the wonderful Harrison Hill, whose riveting debut book, The Oracle’s Daughter is being published today. I met Harrison in 2015, when he (and his fabulous mom!) attended a workshop I co-led with my husband Brian and our friends Rachel and Zayd on the Greek island of Patmos.
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Hello friends, The first sport I fell in love with was gymnastics. The hours my older sister Karen and I spent on the lawn outside our apartment building in Chaska, Minnesota doing cartwheels, handstands, somersaults, and attempted back flips that almost broke our necks cannot be counted. Inspired by Nadia Comăneci’s perfect 10s at the 1976 Olympics, we tumbled and rolled and leapt ourselves dizzy with dreams of becoming Olympians ourselves, until summer faded into winter and we forgot about them.
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