Full Grown People

Essays on Tues/Thurs about the other awkward age founded by @jniesslein.

[Full Grown People @FGPTweets]

Who did your childhood crush became? The amazing Kristin Ohlson (@kristinohlson ). https://t.co/YnxcnRyJAX

[Lisa Cooper Ellison @LisaEllisonsPen]

Last Saturday I got to experience the before times by celebrating @JenniferNiesslein's book launch for Dreadful Sorry through @BeltPublishing. I couldn't be more proud of her and this witty, timely, and poignant book.

#writingcommunity #writerscommunity #amwriting @FGPTweets

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@Chris_Wenzel @jniesslein Hope you found it interesting, dear Chris!

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"I was going to live by myself for the first time in my life, and the thought overwhelmed but also excited me. Mostly excited." @VikingJewess (Nina B. Lichtenstein's) lovely essay on moving out. https://t.co/lRvegXSKgd

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

Very excited to have written about Dreadful Sorry (@belt_publishing), by Jennifer Niesslein, for @ChicagoRevBooks. We talk about private nostalgia, public memories, and our collective and individual imaginations. Great book. Buy it!

https://t.co/d4XXBdG3wu

[Belt Publishing @belt_publishing]

"And because Putin wants what so long ago was, there are nearly 200,000 troops massed on the Ukrainian border." @BethKephart's truly great review of DREADFUL SORRY & how nostalgia is everywhere is up now @CleaverMagazine: https://t.co/4nJ593bNhV

[Full Grown People @FGPTweets]

“I’m really certain about this,” I told Mary. “This part, it’s very clear to me. I am not going to birth another baby, as amazing as my babies are.” Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser @standshadows on owning her body.
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[Full Grown People @FGPTweets]

“Wow. She’s weirder than I am,” I thought, touching the damp on my face, “and she doesn’t care.”
Beth Kaplan's beauty of an essay about her childhood friend. https://t.co/m55LRDbMPA

[Full Grown People @FGPTweets]

@LisaEllisonsPen @OldsterMag Lisa, you're the best! xxoo

[Lisa Cooper Ellison @LisaEllisonsPen]

What an incredible, thought-provoking essay on anxiety by @AmyERobillard. She weaves together so many complicated issues and yet she nails every beat.

https://t.co/WQlgm93IJA

#writingcommunity #anxiety @FGPTweets

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@LisaEllisonsPen @AmyERobillard Thank you, dear Lisa!

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"Anxiety is future oriented, but it forestalls our ability to imagine a present for ourselves." The brilliant @AmyERobillard . https://t.co/t3mrEkpjPu

[Belt Publishing @belt_publishing]

"I have a nostalgia problem, and I'm not the only American who does."

Check out DREADFUL SORRY: ESSAYS ON AN AMERICAN NOSTALGIA, out next month!

https://t.co/cqx2Ka92fQ

[Full Grown People @FGPTweets]

"Maybe my tree realized what was what." A short and lovely one by Eliza Thomas. https://t.co/J44YEqDvKI

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@hatchadorian My pleasure, Jenny! xo

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@Chris_Wenzel @jniesslein Thanks a million, Christine! xxoo —Jennifer

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"I am trying, here, to reconcile a permanent record that can’t be graded." What's forgivable? @jessicahandler is back (yay)!
https://t.co/GV2HL9M6z7

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"My mother and I have shared a hospital room on my birthday twice in our lives. The first time we were joined by an umbilical cord. The second time, fifty-seven years later, by the coronavirus." @cshel718 (Michele Coppola) on COVID. https://t.co/DIC6rWTMab

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“Geriatric,” my mother fumes. “Old people.”
Susan Moldaw on aging—and ageism. Photo by @GinaEasley1
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