Archive - Rachel Shubin's Purple Playground

September 2024

The Shubin Report - Everything Leads to Now, Part 2

Crazy idea #2: a self-assigned, 500-page research project on two sex abuse cases

Sep 30, 2024

Poem: In All My Dreams I Laugh

Aside from Ewan McGregor, have you noticed how few men actually look happy when they smile?

Sep 27, 2024

Gymboree News & Gossip Column - Everything Leads to Now, Part 1

I once had a crazy idea that paid our house payment within four months and made half our income within a year: a weekly email newsletter about how to…

Sep 23, 2024

The Lackey - The Sooth, S1/E7

Juniper gets maybe shanghaied by a maybe government man. 7 min. read

Sep 21, 2024

Poem: But Happiness

I know nothing about happiness / why it arrives strangerly / collapses on the doorstep

Sep 20, 2024

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Sep 15, 2024 •

Poem: Cloud Parade

Please leave me alone / Don’t buzz me with the news / Take my phone to hell /Don’t babble out your views

Sep 13, 2024

Madame Arsenault - The Sooth, S1/E6

Juni meets with the headmistress of the Sooth Academy and someone lies about important things. 11 min. read

Sep 11, 2024

Poem: Ars Poetica

Sometimes a reminder that we’re not alone is welcome like a friend’s embrace

Sep 6, 2024

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