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Author Elana and her mother
Stories

The One Book My Mother Wouldn’t Share With Me

Elana Rabinowitz
By Elana Rabinowitz

While my mother devoured books, it was somewhat challenging for me to read. I never really knew why, or had a diagnosis. I just knew that when I sat down to read like the rest of my family, my mind would wander. Chunks of time would pass, and I was still stuck on the same page. I could read, but early on I learned that I could listen better— and listening is how I advanced myself, in school and later, in my career. What I could not ascertain through the written word, I’d make up for through bionic listening. We all have our strengths.

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A portrait of a Black woman with white natural hair wearing a magenta and green multicolored blouse.
Stories

The Moment I Found Out I Wasn’t My Mother’s Firstborn: A Tale of Ancestral Healing

Omisade Burney-Scott
By Omisade Burney-Scott

I lived the first 53 years of my life fully invested in the narrative that I was my mother’s firstborn child, her firstborn daughter. I had been raised on the bittersweet love story of my parents.

Stories

Who Made Me the Boss, Exactly?

Margit Detweiler
By Margit Detweiler
Stories

Taking the Wheel on My Mom’s Care

Ophira Eisenberg
By Ophira Eisenberg
Stories

I Made Christmas Tamales for My Dad. He Knew They Were Really for Me.

Kathy Cano-Murillo
By Kathy Cano-Murillo
Stories

Being a Good Daughter — and Putting Myself First

Melody Godfred
By Melody Godfred
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It Took My Mom’s Death to Lift the Burden of Being the Responsible One

Mimi Ison
By Mimi Ison

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Stories

How My Covid Boot Camp Brigade Has Thrived

Amy Barr
By Amy Barr
Author Elana and her mother
Stories

The One Book My Mother Wouldn’t Share With Me

Elana Rabinowitz
By Elana Rabinowitz
Events

Photos from Our Coast-to-Coast House Party

TueNight Crew
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Culture

6 Very Relatable Holiday Stories From Gen-X Women

TueNight Crew
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Stories

Who Made Me the Boss, Exactly?

Margit Detweiler
By Margit Detweiler
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Stories

Taking the Wheel on My Mom’s Care

Ophira Eisenberg
By Ophira Eisenberg

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TueNight Virtual House Party: #1 Daughter Storytelling Event
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Heck Yeah, We’re Hosting a House Party!

TueNight Crew
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How to Break Up with Your Friends – with Author Erin Falconer, 3/29

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Let’s Talk About Grief — with Author Issa Mas, 2/28

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TueNight 10

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Allison Gary
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Meet Alison Gary, a Gen-X Blogger for Grown-Ass Women

TueNight Crew
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Lynne Lucas
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Meet Lynne Lucas, a Gen-X Influencer Who Does Aerial Yoga

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Kendra Lendsey
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Kendra Lendsey Wants You to Embrace Your “Midlife Flyness”

TueNight Crew
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In this week's featured story: TueNight writer and veteran magazine editor @AmyLBarr has been working out five to six days a week for the past 30 years.⁠
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Until the pandemic hit and gyms began shutting down.⁠
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→Jonesing for a physical and emotional connection, Amy began working out with her boot camp brigade — a team of badass women over 50 who met outdoors on almost a daily basis during lockdown.⁠
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Three years later, Amy and her fellow brigaders are still at it... and thriving:⁠
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❝The group is self-selecting in that there are no divas, no mirrors, no fancy workout clothes. It’s just a bunch of mostly older women who want to exercise, connect and leave the nonsense of the gym behind.❞⁠
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Girrrl, sign us up!⁠
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💌 Check out "How My Covid Brigade Has Thrived" published on #TueNightSocial: LINK IN OUR BIO @TueNight.⁠
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💯 Milk crate bookshelves and wooden cable spool tables (a.k.a. Early American Curbside) #GenX FTW! 🙌 ⁠
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h/t: @DeathBowPyratess⁠
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Did you catch this week's TueDo List newsletter? ICYMI, we got you. Here are a few of our fave clips published in The TueNight Social.⤵ ⁠
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🎧 LISTEN: @JenniferCoolidge says never give up — and we are here for it!⁠
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📖 READ: The late Lisa Marie Presley on grieving. ⁠
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👀 LOOK: The #AreYouThereGodItsMeMargaret movie trailer is here! ⁠
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🤣 LOL: "I'm Here to Buy a Car that Will Compensate for My Enormous Vagina" by Kathryn Baecht in McSweeney's.⁠
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🛒 ADD TO CART: Stylish storage for your vinyl stash. ⁠
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📺 WATCH: #NightCourt — the latest retro reboot airing on #NBC — and we're gonna watch like it's 1984. ⁠
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💌 To get links to these tips and more — check out our "free" weekly newsletter featured in the #TueNightSocial: LINK IN OUR BIO @TueNight.⁠⁠ 🔗⁠
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 ✂️ Or kick it old school, and copy and paste: https://tuenight.substack.com/p/the-tuedo-list-rip-lisa-marie-judy ⁠
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Meet a TueNighter: We're thrilled to feature Priya Malhotra, author of Woman of An Uncertain Age, in this week's #TueNight10.⁠
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✨Priya has been a New York-based writer and journalist for about 20 years. She's contributed to numerous publications including Newsday, Time Out New York, The Times of India, The Japan Times, Asian Art News, Cosmopolitan and News India Times.✨⁠
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→→ We had the opportunity to interview Priya in our latest Substack where she shared what she hopes readers will take away from her book:⁠
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❝My hope is that people read and enjoy it but I also wish that it adds more color and complexity to their ideas of older women and their lives.❞⁠
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We just love that! 🙌⁠
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✨Follow Priya @writer_priya12 here on Insta & catch her speed Q&A featured this week on #TueNightSocial — click on the LINK IN OUR BIO @TueNight and check it out!⁠✨⁠
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We missed you over the holidays... but we got in some much-needed R&R and we’re back swinging with storytelling from #TueNighters we love... as per usual.⁠
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Like freelance writer, ESL teacher and native Brooklynite, Elana Rabinowitz (@lonid718) who grew up surrounded by books and a family of avid readers — Elana, not so much.⁠
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Until a pop-up book and her mother's mad storytelling skills fostered Elana's love of both — in fact, she thought it would be great to share the book with her students.⁠
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Her mother... not so much:⁠
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❝There wasn’t a book my mother wouldn’t give me—except Brooklyn Pops Up. That one book was off-limits.❞⁠
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And you may or may not be surprised to learn why.⁠
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💌 Check out Elana's featured essay, "The One Book My Mother Wouldn’t Share With Me" published on #TueNightSocial: LINK IN OUR BIO @TueNight.⁠
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✂️ https://tuenight.substack.com/p/the-one-book-my-mother-wouldnt-share ⁠
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#Storytelling #TueNight #WednesdayWisdom
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