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Tag: terms of endearment

Looking Up digital art by EM Matteson 2025
Mommess

Long a$$ rambling tax ‘tip’

Hi Friends, The 2025 tax code allows filers to write off up to 25K in tips as long as their adjusted gross income isn’t above $150,000 ($300,000 if…

December 23, 2025December 23, 2025 · 5 min read

Rock art by EM Matteson
Coaching

Living Legacy™ and loving turns of phrase

I love turns of phrase, especially those that are, by their nature, contradictory. Living Legacy is one like this. Legacy, by definition, has to do with what you…

December 14, 2025December 14, 2025 · 3 min read

Language

Audience

A term of endearment post. If you can feel positioning and motion inherent in words, then you may also experience how your point of view can flip with…

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025 · 3 min read

Language

Perspicacious: a term of endearment

I heard this word for perhaps the first time in a podcast, and fell in love. The word delighted me because it condensed into one word what I’d…

November 28, 2025December 2, 2025 · 2 min read

Language

What do you call utopia?

With Sunday Morning Hope by David Byrne and Patti Smith I don’t care for the word utopia. I feel it’s been so overused for so long that my…

November 9, 2025November 10, 2025 · 4 min read

Too Tired to Title | F’It Birth of Venus by Elizabeth Mullen Matteson
Culture

Admitting Conflation

See, I’m on a self-study immersion in the English language and American culture so as to become a better writer. And my course is pretty sloppy and more…

September 28, 2025September 28, 2025 · 3 min read

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