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Sarah Hepola

5 months

"The two scripts are to have kids or to have made a righteous feminist decision to live child free, and everything in the middle is treated as unfinished, unresolved, incomplete." A Mother's Day story from a non-mother.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

1 year

My college students would like to hear more about career paths adjacent to writing and editing. In other words, stable jobs that use verbal skills but aren’t necessarily in publishing or journalism. Suggestions? Advice?

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Sarah Hepola

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6 years

Well, I went ahead and wrote something about that blackout theory rocketing around Twitter the other day.

Opinion | Kavanaugh and the Blackout Theory (Published 2018)

It is both easy and common to drink, act and then have no memory of it.

www.nytimes.com

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

4 months

14 years sober.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

3 years

I wrote a piece for @TheAtlantic that took about five years to lasso on the page. Will I die in this ditch today? Let's find out. (Thank you to @SStossel for helping me make it this far.)

The Things I’m Afraid to Write About

Fear of professional exile has kept me from taking on certain topics. What gets lost when a writer mutes herself?

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

1 year

@emilynussbaum @offbeatorbit But the opposite of what you just said.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

2 years

@mollymcghee This needs to be a personal essay, and it needs to run in the New Yorker.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

2 years

When you think you’re cleaning out dresser drawers, but you’re actually creating a new cat bed.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

2 years

One under-discussed ramification of last night's election is that Dems will conclude that calling/emailing/texting approximately 5 million times actually works.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

3 years

Welp, I might have just called the Cowboys evil on live radio. Thanks to @RobertWilonsky and @DavidMooreDMN for letting me crash your party at @dfwticket .

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

8 months

@leylaaa31 This person needs to write a personal essay, stat.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

8 months

I have a new gig. @mcuban , you were warned.

Sarah Hepola | Meet your new Dallas Morning News Staff Writer

Growing up, I never wrote about Dallas. In the bedroom where I felt closest to happy, I scribbled stories on college-ruled notebook paper about a precocious girl in Maine (like Stephen King) or a...

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

7 months

The ability to stay calm and fair in the face of unfair questions is a power we need if we want to make it out of our current mess. @coldxman is hell of a role model, and (unrelated) a hell of a musician.

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• @coldxman 's appearance on The View "There's no evidence that I've been co-opted by anyone. I have an independent podcast, I work for CNN as an analyst, I write for The Free Press, I'm independent in all of these endeavors and no one is paying me to say what I'm saying"

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

5 months

First Rangers game in 20+ years. Taking my side hustle as ⁦ @thedumbzone ⁩ correspondent verrrry seriously, ⁦ @NotJakeKemp ⁩ & ⁦ @bracketdan ⁩. Also, Rhett Miller sang the national anthem ❣️

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

3 months

Good morning from West Texas, where the wind is strong and the sun is even stronger.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

2 years

I’m having a Philip Seymour Hoffman movie festival (for one), and I’m starting here.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

5 years

I turned in a book today.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

10 months

Guns & Chicken.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

10 months

My brother is getting more creative each year. My family is now the proud sponsors of a mine-sniffing rat in Cambodia.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

1 year

I wrote about Matthew Perry and how his open-ness about chronic relapse added an important part to the recovery conversation:

Matthew Perry’s Radical Honesty About His Addiction Battle Helped Us All

The ‘Friends’ star, who passed away at the age of 54, was remarkably candid about his struggles and said helping others made him happiest.

www.rollingstone.com

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

2 years

@samisateacher @PGourevitch I know this isn't the point you're making, but: "A tour of my room"???

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

4 months

My first cameo in a Netflix hit. Thanks to whoever sent this screenshot (I have about a dozen), and thanks to my hairstylist who MADE SURE MY HAIR WAS ON POINT #dallashair #AmericasSweethearts #DallasCowboysCheerleaders

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

6 months

A stranger just made me this paper rose in line at @cafelaland and then asked if I’d like to hang out sometime, and Twitter follower, I said yes.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

8 months

@Tyler_A_Harper Memoir and personal essay are a career for me -- writing, teaching, editing, public speaking -- and even I think this is true. But I'd submit the problem is not people telling hard truths about their lives (often profound), but performing Their Truths (usually empty).

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

6 months

@billybinion I think it might derive from a technological mindset of "controlling your settings." the idea that the world around you is out of your control becomes a foreign concept. Block/delete/mute, etc.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

2 years

Is it me, or is this wallpaper extremely WHITE LOTUS?

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

2 years

Fort Worth is what Austin used to be, but don’t tell the others.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

6 months

I think it's the best magazine story I've done. You can decide for yourself. Thank you @texasmonthly for the chance to tell this very Texas story about this very Texan woman.

What ‘Cheer’ Led To: How Viral Fame Upended Monica Aldama’s Life

The Netflix show made her a star. Her life has been hell ever since.

www.texasmonthly.com

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

8 months

You’re telling me Taylor Swift AND Lana Del Rey are at the Super Bowl, and the halftime show is … Usher??? I need to talk to the manager.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

3 years

“One is never completely certain when you drink and do drugs whether the spirits that are moving through you are the spirits from the bottle or your own. And, at a certain point, you become afraid of the answer.” — Tom Waits, who got sober many years ago

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

3 years

I wrote about one of the worst years I've had and the women who help me get through it. Shout-outs to @ThompsonJamieL , @THEMaryoga , @pamelacolloff , @amandafortini , @SharonFGrigsby , and other people who aren't on Twitter.

Sarah Hepola | The Impossible Year

I had a hard year. A lot of people had it harder, a fact I reminded myself of constantly. I never got Covid. Nobody in my family got Covid. I had a solid roof, a warm bed, a loyal and outrageously...

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

6 months

Forgive me.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

7 months

“Dallas is a city of characters. Let me introduce them — and myself.” First dispatch for @dallasnews / High Profile: This time it’s personal.

Dallas is a city of characters. Let me introduce them — and myself

It strikes me as nuts I didn’t write about Dallas for so long. My best stories came to me because I lived here, not somewhere else.

www.dallasnews.com

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

6 months

I wrote about @rhettmiller of the @Old97s for @dallasnews . It's a different kind of profile for me: Deeply personal, though I never actually appear (thank god). This is about a great Dallas artist and how he almost died, but started making music instead.

Rhett Miller and the Old 97′s took Dallas stories and made them American classics

How the sad boy became the wise rock star.

www.dallasnews.com

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

3 years

I will be on @dfwticket at 5:15pm talking #Cowboys , voyeurism, cheerleaders. Be very afraid (I mean me.)

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

11 months

Me at 19. Clearly, it was the Nineties.

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@NancyRomm

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19? I just found this today, modeling for chair of photo dept. at college. Don't know why I look unhappy, it paid $20!

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@sarahhepola

2 years

Showing ⁦ @NancyRomm ⁩ what Texas can do.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

6 months

My mother printing out Facebook reels for her recipe book is ❤️❤️❤️

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

3 years

Never in a million years did I think I'd write a piece hitting hard at the #Cowboys , but here we go. You mess with the cheerleaders, you mess with me. #americasgirls

The Lost Soul of the Dallas Cowboys

The drama that’s swept up Jerry Jones’s former right-hand man says a lot about the distorted values of America’s Team.

www.texasmonthly.com

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@sarahhepola

1 year

@lisatozzi @PaulCrenstorm This is the only answer.

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@sarahhepola

5 months

Let’s go 1984. #starck

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@sarahhepola

3 years

Have you ever seen #dallas from a DC9 at night?

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

2 years

Is it me, or is Amazon trying a bit too hard?

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@sarahhepola

2 years

My brother bought this new family game, and we are cracking up.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

5 months

Five years ago yesterday I walked into an animal shelter and found this guy. His cage said his name was Felix, and I knew that wasn’t right. I took him home, and now he’s Wallace.

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@sarahhepola

5 months

Test-drove the new Rolls-Royce Spectre this morning, I have the best job @dallasnews @rollsroycecars

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@sarahhepola

11 months

Legend.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

8 years

Ugh, I hate my anxiety, so I'm happy to be on this list but mostly want excuse to say how much I LOVE @sosadtoday

BookBub

@BookBub

8 years

6 Books to Help Relieve Anxiety including @BloggessBooks & @sarahhepola

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@sarahhepola

2 years

I'm starting to notice that fancy hotels no longer feature bathtubs, and I am not OK with this.

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@sarahhepola

2 years

Target is different.

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@sarahhepola

2 years

I saw this and was like: You know, Dallas can be pretty. And then I read the mural and was like: Never mind.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

2 years

I wrote this.

New York Magazine

@NYMag

2 years

"I’d always understood sex to be best when it arrived fast and furious, a sign of uncontrollable desire. But that kind of sex was mostly a sign I’d drank myself to a place of soft compliance." @sarahhepola writes

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

3 years

“We don’t know these people. They use us, we use them, and we’re all just f—ing each other in the endgame.” @theoldgreywolf speaking truth about #cowboys scandal.

The Lost Soul of the Dallas Cowboys

The drama that’s swept up Jerry Jones’s former right-hand man says a lot about the distorted values of America’s Team.

www.texasmonthly.com

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@sarahhepola

3 years

My mom used to tell me: If you really knew someone’s story, you’d forgive them.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

1 year

The theme song to SUCCESSION is such a banger that after 38 episodes and multiple watches, I have not skipped it. Not once. Nicholas Britell (Moonlight, The Big Short) is some kind of genius.

Succession Opening Credits Theme Song | Succession | HBO

Season 2 First Episode theme song composed by Nicholas Britell. Season two episodes air Sundays at 9pm starting August 11 on HBO starring Brian Cox, Jeremy S...

www.youtube.com

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

2 years

When you visit the ⁦ @TexasMonthly ⁩ office, and your story is the first framed picture you pass.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

2 years

Whatever @UTAustin student made this, I love you.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

2 years

What is the best memoir ever written? The one that truly captures what the form can do?

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@sarahhepola

6 years

I've heard from several people over the years who did not know, for many years, that they were having blackouts.

Chris Hayes

@chrislhayes

6 years

The possibility hangs over all of this, one I return to over and over, that Blasey Ford’s account is absolutely true and that Kavanaugh has absolutely no memory of it and thinks he has been falsely accused.

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@sarahhepola

2 years

Finally, work/life balance.

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@sarahhepola

2 years

Flight to Dallas canceled. Not a bad place to be stranded for a while.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

2 years

My granddad was very Irish: the charm, the blarney, the Scotch. I think of him on St. Patrick's Day, a celebration of drunken debauchery (he would've approved). I loved him, but I wish he could have known the freedom of sobriety. But that would be for my generation to discover.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

4 months

I just used the phrase “phoning it in” with a 37 year old, and he had no idea what I was talking about. “You mean, like the Regis show?” Did the phrase “phoning it in” to describe half-assery go out of style like three decades ago, and nobody told me?

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@sarahhepola

6 years

"While Dr. Blasey’s brain was pumping the epinephrine and norepinephrine that would etch the moment on her brain, it is quite possible that one if not both of those men were experiencing ... a mechanical failure of the brain to record anything."

Opinion | Kavanaugh and the Blackout Theory (Published 2018)

It is both easy and common to drink, act and then have no memory of it.

www.nytimes.com

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@sarahhepola

7 months

William Randolph Hearst popularized "If it bleeds, it leads." 100+ years later, the public genuinely believes the entire world is bleeding, and saying otherwise is misinformation.

Bridget Phetasy

@BridgetPhetasy

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Always a pleasure talking to @coldxman . He's back to discuss his book The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America. #WalkInsWelcome We cover a lot of ground--links below.

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2 years

"Writing first-thing is the best habit I ever developed. If I put off the writing till later, I’ll likely come up with excuses for why I can’t or don’t have to do it." I gave an interview about my writing routine for anyone who is curious.

Interview with Sarah Hepola: "I have to take a nap somewhere in there." - Famous Writing Routines

Sarah Hepola is a bestselling author and essayist. Her book, Blackout, was well received, and she has had her essays published in various notable publications including the New York Times magazine,...

famouswritingroutines.com

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

3 months

I've literally been in a cave in the desert for two days. Did I miss anything?

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@sarahhepola

2 years

Happy new year from Corpus Christi, where yours truly is celebrating the new year the old-fashioned way: on a reporting trip.

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@sarahhepola

2 years

I have come to the deeply uncomfortable conclusion that the only way to get better at writing is to do it more.

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@sarahhepola

3 months

There is a cat running for office in St. Louis, and now I have to move to St. Louis so I can vote for Shadow.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

3 years

So I've made a podcast about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders with the team at @texasmonthly . We talk glamour, fame, sex, fair pay, feminism, body image, big hair, I hope you'll join us. Debuts December 7.

Announcing Our New Podcast, ‘America’s Girls’

Inside the wild, glamorous, and complicated saga of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, an institution that changed sports, entertainment, and countless childhoods of boys and girls like me.

www.texasmonthly.com

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@sarahhepola

4 months

It's a good morning to read about something other than politics. Behold: My take on the new Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders hit docu-series on Netflix (which, yes, I appear in).

On the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and the risks and rewards of being That Girl

The hit Netflix show ‘America’s Sweethearts’ reveals female perfectionism in a social media age — and signals a new chapter for the iconic group in a post-cheer...

www.dallasnews.com

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

8 months

The irrepressible @walterkirn came on SMOKE EM to talk Tucker Carlson, class differences in media, why @mtaibbi isn't conservative, and to take on @NancyRomm about ... Viktor Orban? I loved every moment, this man is an original.

121. Walter Kirn: "Everybody's Learned to Love the Bomb Except Me"

Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

2 years

Getting to talk with the lovable scoundrels of @wethefifth felt like breaking the fourth wall. I’ve been obsessed with these guys for years. We talk dranking, Twitter gaslighting, Depp-Heard, the weird vibes of Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m on Fire,” and more.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

3 years

I spent yesterday with Mama Sugar, whose extraordinary story I got to tell in a @TexasHighways piece last year about real cowgirls that landed me my first nomination for a national magazine award.

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@sarahhepola

2 years

Is there any flavor combination better than peanut butter and chocolate?

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@sarahhepola

5 months

Invite me on your podcast, get a Doritos-themed football phone. It was too much fun ⁦ @bracketdan ⁩ and ⁦ @NotJakeKemp ⁩. Your new digs are🔥.⁦ @thedumbzone ⁩

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@sarahhepola

7 months

"As a full moon rose in the clear, bright sky, I felt as though I’d discovered the edge of the universe—and it came with a Nespresso machine." The rich history, overwhelming trendiness, and unstoppable rise of glamour + camping, aka GLAMPING. I visited 4 spots in Texas, a

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@sarahhepola

3 years

The Cars are an underrated band.

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

6 months

There is only one David Sedaris, and lucky me, I got to chat with him.

Fifteen minutes with David Sedaris, a veteran of the DMA’s Arts & Letters Live

The legendary humorist jokes about ‘fistfight airlines,’ his opioid addiction, and why we sometimes need permission to say, ‘shut up.’

www.dallasnews.com

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@sarahhepola

4 months

Sex appeal, cigarettes, bare skin. Basically everything celebrated in the late 20th century is questionable in the 21st.

pop culture

@gagasyuyi

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a thread of the most iconic photos taken in pop culture:

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2 years

In the future, everyone will be canceled for 15 minutes.

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@sarahhepola

3 years

“One day you’re gonna get tired of giving the middle finger to the world,” a wise friend said, as I tapped out another cigarette. “Probably,” I said, placing the thing between my lips. “But not yet.”

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@sarahhepola

6 months

Print = not dead yet.

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@sarahhepola

2 years

You should never write a memoir as an act of revenge. Those books tend to be small-minded, self-justifying, and gratingly self-involved. (Not that any of that will stop a memoir by a certain scorned royal from selling a gajillion copies.)

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1 year

This is far and away the best book on the creative process I’ve ever read (listened to technically), and I’d recommend it to newcomers and old-timers alike. You made a thing of beauty, Rick Rubin. Once again.

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2 years

Good morning from downtown Dallas, where the public art is getting a little weird.

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2 years

A possum just walked right past me on my outdoor couch at 2am. The possums do not give a shit, and frankly, it unsettles me.

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@sarahhepola

2 years

The grape soda selection in this Cooper Farms stop in Fairfield, TX, is not screwing around.

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@sarahhepola

3 years

I will be chatting with @bracketdan and @NotJackKemp at 12:30pm today (or thereabouts) to talk #cowboys voyeurism scandal, thus rounding the bases on my goal to appear on all @dfwticket shows. Morning Musers and @NormHitzges , I'm looking at you. #americasgirls

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Sarah Hepola

@sarahhepola

6 months

BASTARDS OF SOUL were a band, and now they're a documentary. Several local music gems populate this story, which includes the saga of the late great Chadwick Murray. Movie has its Texas premiere at the @TexasTheatre this Saturday (4/27).

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2 years

New readers, 70s mood.

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7 months

Easter 1978 with my first running buddy, my brother Josh. The Hepolas came to party.

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@sarahhepola

8 years

I just learned there's a Finnish word, "Kalsarikannit," for being drunk at home in your underwear. This explains my 20s.

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2 years

The writer at work.

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@sarahhepola

2 years

Two states, one bar. God bless America.

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@sarahhepola

2 years

Back at my old stomping grounds. #HPlitfest #classof92

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2 months

Just did a Google search to find an old story and discovered that I died two years ago in Minnesota after a long peaceful life of teaching elementary school, so I consider this a bonus round.