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Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs

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Can Everyone Just STFU About ‘Wokeness’?

We Need to Find a Way Out of This Bullshit and Do Better Together — My parents brought me up to be a ‘decent’ human. When I was six they smacked the crap out of me because I called someone a “darkie”. I didn’t say it out of spite. I’d read it somewhere, or heard it from someone else at school. I didn’t know better…

Bouncin And Behavin Blogs

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Can Everyone Just STFU About ‘Wokeness’?
Can Everyone Just STFU About ‘Wokeness’?
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The Wind Phone

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I Lost My Son Thirty Years Ago, Now I Really Need Him Back

A story about loss through divorce — Ask any mother how they’d feel if the relationship with their child was broken beyond repair. Shattered? Desperate? Guilty? Suicidal? My answer is yes, to all of the above. The defining moment of this story comes amid a very unpleasant divorce. It is spring of 1991, and I have just…

The Wind Phone

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I Lost My Son Thirty Years Ago, Now I Really Need Him Back
I Lost My Son Thirty Years Ago, Now I Really Need Him Back
The Wind Phone

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This May Be The Perfect Solution For Getting What You Need In Life

Who knew the deli counter held such power? — “Please can I have a kilo of Inspiration and six packets of Endurance.” “Will that be all for today?” “Oh, wait, sorry, I just remembered I have people coming over tonight. I’ll need a few slices of Patience too. How big are they?” “Very small.” “That won’t be enough. …

Bouncin And Behavin Blogs

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This May Be The Perfect Solution For Getting What You Need In Life
This May Be The Perfect Solution For Getting What You Need In Life
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The Memoirist

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A Gift For My Younger Self

But still, what the hell were you thinking? — I understand you were deluded. You can’t be blamed for constructing the future out of movies and magazines. It was 1969. Things were very different then. You had a picture in your head. In front of a crackling fire, reading great poetry to your eternal love. Soft classical piano music…

The Memoirist

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A Gift For My Younger Self
A Gift For My Younger Self
The Memoirist

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About Me—Janet Meisel

If you don’t like randomness, don’t read this. Sorry, I’m genetically British. That is definitely a non sequitur, as I think British people are very non random. Orderly. Look how they spontaneously queue, without instruction. When I was thirteen, I read all of Hemingway’s books twice and wrote a fifty-page thesis on why he…

About Me

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About Me—Janet Meisel
About Me—Janet Meisel
About Me

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ILLUMINATION

·Sep 21

The Fourth Life Lost Too Soon

A difficult conversation with a dead woman — The fourth suicide story I’ve heard in two weeks has, along with the other three (previously resting uneasily somewhere in my subconscious), locked itself in a room in my head. At various times of the day it kicks at the door and screams for attention. Nighttimes are worse. It isn’t…

Illumination

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The Fourth Life Lost Too Soon
The Fourth Life Lost Too Soon
Illumination

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The Narrative Arc

·Sep 20

The Mystery of The Man Who Threw Away a Perfectly Good Daughter

To this day, no one understands why a father walked away from his loving daughter and her one year old twins — Twin boys just celebrated their sixteenth birthday, and they have no memory of their biological grandfather, Brian. He’s alive. He doesn’t live far away. He just doesn’t care enough to be in their lives. Perhaps even more shocking, the twins have an adorable brother, nine years old, whom their grandfather…

The Narrative Arc

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The Mystery of The Man Who Threw Away a Perfectly Good Daughter
The Mystery of The Man Who Threw Away a Perfectly Good Daughter
The Narrative Arc

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ILLUMINATION

·Sep 3

My Mother’s Ageing Mind is an Awful and Fascinating Master

Learning about memory loss through my mother’s experience. — She sits across from me, her hands, etched in spidery blue veins, fingers gnarled, reach out and drop the small white tiles into place with a satisfying click. She smiles. Although I try my best to outsmart my mother, even at ninety-seven, I never win. And now, somehow, I don’t…

Illumination

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My Mother’s Ageing Mind is an Awful and Fascinating Master
My Mother’s Ageing Mind is an Awful and Fascinating Master
Illumination

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Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs

·Aug 27

A Painful But Honest Reflection on My Twin Grandsons’ First Sixteen Years on Earth

It definitely hasn’t been all cuteness and fun times — When my grandsons were tiny newborn twins, my daughter regularly woke me, crying hysterically, begging me to hurry over before she “killed them and buried them in the backyard”. My car, over the years, learned its way to her house and back with little effort from me. …

Bouncin And Behavin Blogs

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A Painful But Honest Reflection on My Twin Grandsons’ First Sixteen Years on Earth
A Painful But Honest Reflection on My Twin Grandsons’ First Sixteen Years on Earth
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The Wind Phone

·Aug 21

A Simple Question Turned a Conversation in a Very Bizarre Direction

It was meant to be small talk but it turned into something more profound — I had just arrived at the coffee shop. My friend sat across the table, sipping her latte. She smiled. ‘What are you up to, today?’ I asked. ‘Actually, I’m going shopping for my mum’s burial outfit.’ ‘Oh!’ I gasped. Had I committed a terrible error, had I somehow overlooked the…

The Wind Phone

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A Simple Question Turned a Conversation in a Very Bizarre Direction
A Simple Question Turned a Conversation in a Very Bizarre Direction
The Wind Phone

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Janet Meisel

Janet Meisel

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Writer, artist, poet. Can’t dance for quids. https://medium.com/@janet.meisel Top Writer in Satire, and This Happened To Me

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