Archive - Open Secrets Magazine

How to Decorate a Jail Cell and What Items Are and Aren't Allowed While Serving Time with Kari Ferrell

Finders and Keepers Episode 8 - Kari Ferrell, author of memoir You'll Never Believe Me, on dehumanizing restrictions inmates face around their…

6 hrs ago • Open Secrets Magazine, Rachel Kramer Bussel, and Kari Ferrell

1:06:10

Object-ives #37: Women Stronger Than Diamonds

The extraordinary legacy of resilience that lives in the ring on my finger

10 hrs ago • Laura LeBleu

Your Story Isn’t About What You Think It’s About

How to discover the real through line of your memoir or personal essay

May 27 • Joselin Linder

American Fantasy Author and Bookstore Owner Emma Straub on Why Book Swag Is Everywhere

Finders and Keepers Episode 7 - Why novelist Emma Straub went all out promoting her boy band cruise novel American Fantasy, being a longtime New Kids on…

May 27 • Open Secrets Magazine, Rachel Kramer Bussel, and Emma Straub

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Psychopomp of Clutter

Helping people clear out their Stuff is a gift I’m happy to give

May 26 • Hanne Blank Boyd

Drawing with My Brain Mess

How small marks pull me through parental grief

May 23 • Ellen Moore

Object-ives #36: TV Guide Ruled My Childhood

The magazine was a comfort and a liferaft for my autistic mind

May 22 • Jessica Gentile

This, That, and The Third

Athena Dixon on yearning for and missing third spaces and hobbies that aren't about career advancement but simply pure enjoyment.

May 20 • Athena Dixon

Why Fly Fishing Is the Ultimate Sport for Hoarders with Angling Educator Nick Parish

Finders and Keepers Episode 6 - The only gear you really need to take part in fly fishing

May 20 • Open Secrets Magazine, Rachel Kramer Bussel, and Nick Parish

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Podcasting for a Job Title

When I couldn’t find a full-time job, teaching about my hobby boosted my professional dignity

May 18 • Deborah Copperud-Read MN Books

The Hobby I Swore I Wouldn’t Start

How a practical gift quietly changed my priorities

May 16 • Nancy Jorgensen

Object-ives #35: Slippery Soap and the Wrinkle People

A bath-time ritual, an imaginary family, and the small plastic soap figure that helped us through

May 15 • Nettie Reynolds

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