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Sorry I've been MIA!

Probably should have let you know I'm going out of town. 😬

Kathleen Sykes
Aug 19, 2022
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Hello! This is just going to be a quick one, but I wanted to give you an update since I didn’t post on Monday, and this definitely isn’t your Weekly Rondo.

I have a dear friend who has been begging me to come visit her in Boston for about three years. I finally got a ticket to visit her at the end of February 2020… and then all hell broke loose. Unfortunately, she was just finishing up cancer treatment, and visiting a vulnerable friend in the middle of a pandemic didn’t seem like the best idea, so I kept putting it off.

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I’m going to Boston. Well… not Boston exactly. Somewhere just outside of Boston. No — not Harvard. But I will be coming back with a lot of historical trivia.

And then, by some miracle, I found myself with a whole lotta time on my hands and more mobility than I knew what to do with. This friend just bought a house outside of Boston (and no, that is not a euphemism for Harvard), and asked me t stay with her for a month or so.

I’ll be writing from there, but I had to spend most of my week pulling my apartment together, so it isn’t a complete disaster while I’m gone.

While I have your attention…

If any of you have been to the Boston area, would you let me know what I should go see? Obviously, I will be going to Salem, but I’d love to know what else you recommend.

Coming up…

I will be right back at you next week with another installment of ā€œThe friend of the people.ā€ We’ll be talking about what elements of the French Revolution made the perfect storm for a witch hunt.

Please stay. You are loved. You are needed.

I watched a bit of my Governor’s monthly press conference today, and he mentioned something about the high prevalence of suicide we’ve been seeing, and I noticed quite a few people bringing the issue up recently.

A few years ago, I wrote about my experience with suicide and revised it a few months ago to add a few more lessons I have learned. I attempted suicide when I was 17, and it left an indelible mark on me in the best sense of the word. I wanted to share it with you again here.

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A Foreword… When I started this Substack, I did not imagine this would be the first piece I would publish. I had several ideas in the hopper like ā€œThe Slapā„¢ as Performance Artā€ to talk about how Will Smith’s slapping of Chris Rock became a meta performance art piece wherein Smith was the artist…
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Have a great weekend.

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