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Suleika Jaouad

A writer and speaker who chronicles her journey with cancer and explores themes of creativity, resilience, and community in her 'Isolation Journals' newsletter.

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Art Camp, Week 4: Have You No Shame?!

Celebrating teenage rebellion on roller skates

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Art Camp, Week 3: Beauty on Both Sides

The bridges we cross, how they shape us

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Art Camp, Week 2: Terms of Endearment

The names we carry—and the stories they tell

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Welcome to Art Camp

A month-long Artist Residency for beginners, dabblers, and the creatively curious

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Notes from Journaling Club: Back to Front

Sunday, July 26, 2026

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A Universe of People to Admire

Jonny Miles on who's who in America & Beck Dorey-Stein on fan/love letters

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Have You Fed the Peacocks?

On deferred desires, the peculiar economics of sick time, and the persistence of childhood dreams

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Never Again Will I Ever

On teaching, airport fiascos, and making it through adulthood

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3,000 Unreasonable Little Arguments

Chaos gardening, escaped cows, and why easier isn’t always better

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Notes from Journaling Club: Musical Movements

Sunday, June 14, 2026

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Black Mozart

Jon Batiste on a modern, metaphysical, momentous musician

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A Lifetime of Reading

Papa Hédi’s Incomplete List of Essential Books

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The Pleasure Principle

An essential reading list & Deb Olin Unferth on shifting your thinking

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Notes from Journaling Club: Just Do

Sunday, May 31, 2026

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Pendant, Gravid, Asking to Fall

A little update about this newsletter

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With Love, from the Bottom of the Sea

Reaching out across impossible distances

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How to Host a Journaling Club

A practical guide for hosting meaningful gatherings and building creative community

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Join Me for a Special Workshop!

Tomorrow, May 20, from 12-1pm ET

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I Blame My Father’s Summer Reading Lists

On dangerous books, desert wanderers, and the strange afterlife of reading

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Mama Was Right

On gifts that reveal themselves over time

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A Short Love Story

On showing up fully for what can’t last

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I Missed the Fox

And I think it means something

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One Year of The Book of Alchemy

I remain in awe

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Notes from Journaling Club: Stray Dogs

Sunday, April 19, 2026

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Were We This Brave at 17?

A high school open mic—and Hrishikesh Hirway on change

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Not to Complain, But…

Actually, yes—to complain. In great detail.

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Live Every Day Like It's Your First

Baby grandmas, child play & Piera Gelardi on expanding reality

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The Best of the Isolation Journals

Celebrating six years with a selection of our greatest hits

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On Art, Money, and Permission

& Mason Currey on making a living

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A Book Deal, A Breakdown, A Breakthrough

An Essay

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Notes from Journaling Club: It Was Manna

Sunday, March 22, 2026

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Lowering the Volume

On attunement, erasure, and what reveals itself in the quiet

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In My Next Life

The body rewrites itself

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2,200 Lists Later

& Beth Kephart on the literary list and the art of transcendence

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Notes from Journaling Club: Resounding Unanimous Yes

Sunday, March 1, 2026

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What Lurks Beneath and What Love Reveals

& Lucy Kalanithi on a different way of loving

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A Rave Review

Elizabeth Gilbert on friendship & Jonathan Miles on the world and its ways

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On Quitting, and What Remains

The afterlife of a former self, revisited

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This Was Not the Plan

& Anna Quindlen on power and control

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