Zhuqing Li is a professor of East Asian studies at Brown University and the author of Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden as well as four scholarly books on linguistics and contemporary China. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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I wrote my book with the singular goal of making other people feel less lonely. As a kid, the books of David Sedaris made me feel like I was not alone in having a "different" family and my prayer-hope-please-oh-please-wish is that my book gives you some comfort. Or at least a few laughs. I'll take either tbh.
Tara Schuster is vice president of talent and development at Comedy Central. She was the executive in charge of the Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning Key & Peele, the Emmy® Award winning @Midnight, and numerous other shows including Another Period, Detroiters, and Hood Adjacent. Her plays have been performed in the New York International Fringe Festival and he
Dr Pooja Lakshmin, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist, New York Times contributor and a leading voice at the intersection of mental health and gender, focused on helping women and people from marginalized communities escape the tyranny of self-care. In 2020, Lakshmin founded Gemma - a physician led women's mental health education platform centering impact and equity. She maintains an active private practice, where she treats women struggling with burnout, perfectionism, and disillusionment, as well as clinical conditions like depression and anxiety. Having gone down the rabbit hole of extreme wellness herself, Real Self-Care is her answer to the juice cleanses, the gratitude lists, and the bubble baths - not only to care for ourselves fo
Damona Hoffman, aka “Dear Mrs D”, was an early adopter of the online dating trend in 2001. At the time she was working in television casting for CBS and teaching courses at night for actors on auditioning and marketing techniques. The classes were focused on personal branding and making a good impression in an audition room. She led many actors to career success and several are now regulars on some of TV’s most popular series.
She began applying her techniques for actors towards her own online dating “career” and realized that the better her branding was and the more prepared she was to make the first impression, the better her results. In 2003, she met the man who would later become her husband on a dating site. Shortly after, friends, rel
Laura Hamill – Biography I am a writer, botanical artist and art teacher.
In 2005 I was gifted with the website of writingevolution.com at several thousand feet above the ground during a flight taking off from Arizona to California. It was my early days of healing over the passing of my husband, John, and I was ready to write stories about the amazing signs I was shown in my contemplations and meditations.
I was ready to start a site using the title “broken branches” when all of a sudden I felt the words “writing evolution” pounding in my head and as I looked out the window at the farmland below I saw the characters “W” and as the plane made a right hand turn the “W “ clearly became an “E. “ I felt shivers all over and thought for sure that w
