True Tales of the Silver Fox By Rebecca Thomas Illuminating, unvarnished stories about a life. 1072 subscribers 80 issues Subscribe to my list This thingy has to be empti pwieshh
#77 Sep 26, 2018 Down To The Bone – I'll keep it brief this week. Today and tomorrow are my last days of moving and I am now dragging mys
#76 Sep 19, 2018 Stick To The Dumb Stuff 🤤 – To write is to be in conversation with yourself, to preserve a state of being so you can conclude a s
#75 Sep 16, 2018 Dear Member 😍 – I've been thinking about ways to make your membership feel like a value. I'm not sure what that mecha
#74 Sep 12, 2018 Too Much Is Never Enough 😳 – Downsizing is horrible. Every day I question my decision not to die in a big house surrounded by a li
#73 Sep 5, 2018 Gimme Shelter 🌪 🐦 – I love interiors created by people you can easily imagine require weekly therapy. Dark, brooding room
#72 Aug 29, 2018 Anything Is Possible 😵 – I'm selling my house, so I hired a home stager to make sure it looked just right. The first thing the
#71 Aug 21, 2018 5 Things Your Should Never Say 🤐 – Cancer, it's so awkward!Especially when you don't have it, and are talking to someone who does (or di
#70 Aug 15, 2018 People Are Bonkers, And I Love It 🤪 – Give me your oddballs, mavericks, misfits, and throw in a few curmudgeons and contrarians. I dig 'em.
#69 Aug 8, 2018 Can Love Be A Skill? ⛑ – ‘I don’t understand what you think that I’m saying.’ (Marital argument, overheard at a local diner.)H
#68 Aug 1, 2018 The Joy Of Being Alone 🛀 – Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.The oth
#67 Jul 25, 2018 Gone Surfing 🤙 – By surfing, I mean trying so, so hard to get and stay on that damn board, but mostly not. Getting pus
#66 Jul 18, 2018 How To Enjoy Everything 🌟 – This week's title is reflective of the careful attention I pay to never overpromising. Also, clickbai
#65 Jul 11, 2018 Hey, Bad Girl 😏 – Why everything that's supposed to be bad make me feel so good?Everything they told me not to is exact
#64 Jul 4, 2018 Hot dogs and Tacos, Oh My! – Food is personal. Intimate, even. On the rarest of occasions a restaurant meal can feel this way, but
#63 Jun 27, 2018 The Poetry of Things 🦎 🆓 – Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the im
#62 Jun 27, 2018 The Poetry of Things 🦎 – Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the im
#61 Jun 9, 2018 Kate, Tony and my Mom – The news about Kate Spade saddened me, but Anthony Bourdain did me in. I admired both of them, althou
#60 Jun 6, 2018 Rebecca's Top-Notch Camping Tips 🏕 💯 – Hey guys! I've returned from my trip. I was looking a little rough, but nothing a hot shower and a we
#59 May 23, 2018 The Downside of an Up Economy 🐶 + 🍺 = 💩 🆓 – One clear sign the economy is roaring along is the sudden proliferation of businesses that couldn't e
#58 May 23, 2018 The Downside of an Up Economy 🐶 + 🍺 = 💩 – One clear sign the economy is roaring along is the sudden proliferation of businesses that couldn't e
#57 May 16, 2018 Why Do This? 🏜 ⛺️ 🆓 – I've gone feral. It turns out all sorts of domesticated animals can become feral again, maybe humans
#56 May 16, 2018 Why Do This? 🏜 ⛺️🏮 – I've gone feral. It turns out all sorts of domesticated animals can become feral again, maybe humans
#55 May 9, 2018 You Might Be In Texas 🤠 🆓 – You can tell you're in Texas by the roadkill. Somewhere past Arkansas it changes from raccoon and pos
#54 May 9, 2018 You Might Be In Texas 🤠 – You can tell you're in Texas by the roadkill. Somewhere past Arkansas it changes from raccoon and pos
#53 May 2, 2018 I slept in a Walmart parking lot (and it wasn't half-bad) 🛌 – In my defense, I made reservations. They just happened to be for May 26th, not April 26th, when I act
#52 Apr 25, 2018 On Fear 🌬🌬🌬 (free version) – Most mornings I wake between three and four am. My body tricks me, rousts me to use the bathroom. Wit
#51 Apr 25, 2018 On Fear 🌬🌬🌬 – Most mornings I wake between three and four am. My body tricks me, rousts me to use the bathroom. Wit
#50 Apr 18, 2018 It's THAT DAY Y'all 💬⁉️ – I know, the South has done a number on me. But, y'all! I'm excited to finally be launching my subscri
#49 Apr 11, 2018 Getting Ready... 💪 – I'm keeping things brief this week while I get ready for my camper trip to New Mexico (not a vacation
#48 Apr 4, 2018 Rebecca Goes to Camp (with photo) ⛱ 📸 – I'm not convinced vacations are a great idea. With few exceptions, I've found them to be expensive, s
#47 Mar 28, 2018 Road Trip! 🚙 – I'm headed to Charleston, SC this week for a little fun, so my heartfelt (oversharing) essays will ha
#46 Mar 21, 2018 47! 🎂 👗 – I'll be forty-seven this Saturday, which is only bittersweet because I worry about how many birthdays
#45 Mar 14, 2018 Natural 🌿 & Industrial 📸 – I have a walk I take most days. I sometimes wonder when I will tire of it and want to see something e
#44 Mar 7, 2018 The Incredible Usefulness of Alain de Botton 💡 – My mother introduced me to Alain de Botton some fifteen years ago with the wonderful book, the Consol
#43 Feb 28, 2018 Loving a Child Not Of Your Making 🌟 – Since my early twenties, I’ve had a reoccurring, hypnagogic fantasy. I am lying prone on a bed or sof
#42 Feb 21, 2018 A little help from my friends? ☘️ – And we are friends now. After forty issues, many of which I pour my whole self onto the page, it feel
#41 Feb 14, 2018 I Will Not Go Quietly 😶 – I bought a MoviePass recently, which is being billed as the Netflix for movie theaters. At ten bucks
#40 Jan 31, 2018 How Does One Plan? 🙀 – Last Wednesday I ate two cupcakes which was exactly two more than I needed. I try not to congratulate
#39 Jan 17, 2018 SNOW DAY! ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ – I wanted to write this week but just couldn't. It was tempting to simply force myself, but these days
#38 Jan 10, 2018 Love and Sex, Piecing It Together 🖋 – The New York Times does a wonderful thing at the end of each year, a remembrance of notable people ca
#37 Jan 3, 2018 Dieting and Not Dieting 🤭 – Last month I attended to a fun get-together with a group of women from around the city. While we chat
#36 Dec 27, 2017 Au Revoir 2017 🎉 – This is my last digest for 2017, so I suppose it's appropriate to be reflective. What started out as
#35 Dec 20, 2017 My Mother, The Family Beauty 🥀 – A photo of my mother as a young woman popped up on facebook a few days ago. The photo was posted by a
#34 Dec 13, 2017 On The Pleasures of Walking 👣 – It's crazy how many things no longer interest me. Each year something else is peeled away; dinner par
#33 Dec 6, 2017 A Different Sort of Woman 🖤 – I often daydream about being a fly on the wall for dates I am not on. Not to be intrusive, but to obs
#32 Nov 29, 2017 Whelp, that didn't work AT ALL 🤨 – I tried something new with the last digest. Instead of including the entire essay, I put in a teaser
#31 Nov 15, 2017 Et Tu, Louis? 🤯 – Woody Allen was transparent, at least to me. He’s made a career of constructing narratives that sell
#30 Nov 8, 2017 Pushy, but polite. Appreciative, and not actually insane 😜 – Last Friday I woke up at 4a, got dressed, walked the twelve blocks to the hospital, and checked mysel
#29 Oct 31, 2017 Always On The Sunny Side 🌞 – A few weeks ago a well-meaning reader sent me an article from the Guardian about the reporter Victori
#28 Oct 25, 2017 Men! Try this one, weird trick 💯 – Hear this whole essay on podcast (and leave me a kind review)! 🎧I'm romantic ennui specialist. It's n
#27 Oct 18, 2017 On Fleas and Friendship 🦀 – Some time ago I invited a good friend and her cat stay with me, someone I've known for years. She was
#26 Oct 11, 2017 Old Around The Eyes 😎 – I've been looking a little tired lately. I attributed this to my recent bout of poor sleeping (hello
#25 Oct 4, 2017 Nature's Inexhaustible Beauty 🌱 – I'm a city girl through and through. Blight, poverty, noise, public transportation, walking for miles
#24 Oct 1, 2017 Hugh Hefner, and the sexual revolution that wasn't 🖤 – Hugh Hefner died this past week and right on cue the obituaries began with pronouncements about his u
#23 Sep 27, 2017 Emoji This ☔️ 🙃 🥑 – The gender divide is real, and nowhere is it more pronounced than over the use of emojis. I should sa
#22 Sep 19, 2017 Are We Wired For Dissatisfaction? 😤 – A few things stick out in my mind when I think of my Mom. Her excellent taste (she instinctually knew
#21 Sep 14, 2017 In Defense of Difficult People 🤐 – This essay is going to come across as particularly self-serving. No matter, it's my digest, and as I
#20 Sep 10, 2017 Cooking, A Lifelong Pleasure 🍳 – The rise of smoothie bowls and avocado toast has me thinking about cooking. I like both of those thin
#19 Sep 7, 2017 Let's Get Weird 🍄 – I'm not a fan of weirdness for the sake of attention seeking or as an affectation to make a public di
#18 Aug 31, 2017 Am I Pretty? 🙈 – The other day I found myself asking a man a version of this cringe-worthy question. As soon as the wo
#17 Aug 28, 2017 Gertrude & Alvin 🌳 – We love “to break across our solitude, and then, if we’re lucky, finally transformed into something f
#16 Aug 25, 2017 If I Get Sick (again) 🌾 – I'm sorry to say that I have. A routine mammogram found a problematic spot, and the subsequent biopsy
#15 Aug 20, 2017 Does Dating Work? 🤔 – I hope this doesn't come across as bragging, but I have been on hundreds of dates in the last seven y
#14 Aug 18, 2017 My Perfect Side Hustle 🕺 – When I was about fourteen my parents sent me to live with a French family in Strasbourg for the summe
#13 Aug 11, 2017 The Importance of Female Desire 💋 – Last night on my walk I listened with particular interest to an episode of the Heart podcast called "
#12 Aug 8, 2017 Why Do I Write?! ✒️ My Gif to You 🎁 – Being a writer is one part hermit and two parts beggar (would you please, please read my newest piece
#11 Aug 5, 2017 J-Ward, A Visual Tour 📸 – I have terrible anxiety. It's an affliction with its own gifts. It allows me to feel deeply. It's an
#10 Aug 2, 2017 #freethenipple 🌸 – I recently posted a picture of myself on Instagram in one of my favorite dresses. I was looking to sh
#9 Jul 30, 2017 (S)MOOCH-ES Y'all! 🤣 – Truth: I spent my entire Friday night reading articles about the bonkers interview our new White Hous
#8 Jul 25, 2017 Confounding Love ❣️ – I think about love a lot. I suspect many of us do. It's the first thing I thought about when I was di
#7 Jul 18, 2017 To Bail or Not To Bail? 😬 – That is the question in 2017. I love the freedom of not having to get myself together. The prospect o
#6 Jul 11, 2017 The Golden Age 🌞 – In my twenties and thirties I viewed the prospect of turning forty with dread. Surely, it was the end
#5 Jul 4, 2017 The Nature of Confidence 💪🏽 – My confidence is something people remark on with regularity. Other than the white hair, it's a bit of
#4 Jun 27, 2017 I Was Wrong 😔 🤔 – It's such a bummer to find out we were wrong. A shock to the system. How did something that seemed so
#3 Jun 20, 2017 The Lives of Women 💥 – I'm a woman who likes and feels comfortable around men. It's hard to know if that is part of my genet
#2 Jun 13, 2017 Small Home 💕 – Recently, I made the mistake of telling my Dad I wanted to build a small home, say 1000-1400 sq. ft.
#1 Jun 6, 2017 Thoughts On Happiness 🦋 – I've been thinking about happiness lately. Mostly, because I am happy, and it's come as a bit of a su
