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Melissa Cullens
Mar 19, 2025
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Hi friends, sorry I’ve been MIA.
Also, welcome new friends! There’s been a flush of subscribers since the incredible

Jenna Park
added me to her recommendations, and it seems like a lot of folks are realizing
Barrett Holmes Pitner
‘s Reconstructionist is GREAT for these wild days. A lot of my creative energy has been diverted while I’ve been standing up a new project, which you can check out over at
NewFriends Social Club
. I’ll do a post with more about that soon. Very excited to be back in your inbox and hope you all are doing well and enjoying the start of spring.

Somewhere at the start of the month … maybe it was the end of February? Anyway. A few weeks ago I missed three consecutive meetings with one of my colleagues. They’re not new meetings. We’ve been having the same weekly check-ins for over two years. I’ll give myself a little grace as we had recently moved the time and I was coming back from being away for a week and still trying to get into a routine after the holidays, but it’s not really enough to miss THREE in a row.

And not…

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