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"If You Are Reading This, I’m Dead"

On keeping journals and what happens to them once you die.

Jul 19 •

Alena Falkengren

Are We The Last to Make Human Art?

On AI and a loss of creativity.

Jul 2 •

Alena Falkengren

Romanticizing chores and feeling grown up

The real art of life is creating your own adventure, no matter how small.

Mar 6 •

Alena Falkengren

New Year — New Word — Old Me

I don’t want to sleepwalk through my life. I want to be an active participant in its creation.

Jan 4 •

Alena Falkengren

A Love Letter to Autumn

A longing with nothing to long for

Sep 18, 2024 •

Alena Falkengren

“You can have it all, just not all at the same time.”

Life lived well and lives not lived

Aug 1, 2024 •

Alena Falkengren

Work Is the Only Real Training

Will I ever finish writing my novel?

May 11, 2024 •

Alena Falkengren

Sex, Rage and Christmas Movies

Hallmark and conservative propaganda

Dec 3, 2023 •

Alena Falkengren

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