The Good Typist | Kristen McHenry | Substack

I’ve always been insecure about my ability to build creatively in sandbox games. I’ve had some middling success here and there in Minecraft, but I don’t vibe with the cube-y nature of it very well, and it doesn’t excite my creative juices. Generally, I find trying to create…

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It’s been a week full of experiments. I had to trudge off to my annual eye exam recently, partly because that’s the one annual exam I never miss, and partly because I’ve been having ongoing issues with my work computer causing eyestrain. I was convinced that my left contact lens…

Mar 18

I was quite unsettled this week to the read the now infamous story of the Bing AI chat bot, which is currently in testing and, luckily, has not yet been unleashed onto the general public. In a long conversation with New York Times reporter Kevin Roose, the AI expressed the desire…

Feb 19

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I was complaining this weekend as I was cleaning radishes about how much I hate cleaning radishes. I grumped about the slimy green leafy parts, the…

Feb 12

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Feb 5

I was thrilled to receive an acceptance this week for some poems I submitted to an upcoming anthology. I haven’t submitted work in a very long time, and…

Jan 29

To my surprise, I recently received in the mail a Montgomery Ward catalog with an eye-searing hot-pink cover stating in all caps: YOU ARE PRE-APPROVED…

Jan 22

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Jan 15

I’m relieved that it’s January and that it’s a brand-new year. The holidays were messy, difficult and cranky-making, not mention rife with snow and ice…

Jan 8

Every now and then I find myself in the right circumstances to be watching a Lifetime movie on television, and just such a circumstance occurred this…

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The Good Typist

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The Good Typist

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