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The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft

The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft

A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft

2023

Stories

Diana Helmuth

How America is Failing at October

I have a confession: I hate October. I am aware this is an opinion bordering on excommunicative for my identity as both a white woman and…

6 min readOct 25, 2023

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How America is Failing at October

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I Spent a Year Trying to Turn Myself Into a Witch. Here’s What Happened.

We are in a Witch heyday. Witchcraft has been the fastest growing religion in the US for at least the past 10 years. One peek at TikTok and…

8 min readAug 4, 2023

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I Spent a Year Trying to Turn Myself Into a Witch. Here’s What Happened.

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If You Want to Feel Better, Celebrate Lammas (Which is Today)

Let me open this essay by saying: I am not a spiritual leader. I do not aspire to be a spiritual leader, and I am not trying to sell you…

6 min readJul 31, 2023

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If You Want to Feel Better, Celebrate Lammas (Which is Today)

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Slackjaw

When Human Life Definitely Begins, According to All These Different People

Don’t worry, together we can make sure you have the correct opinion.

2 min readMay 26, 2022

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When Human Life Definitely Begins, According to All These Different People

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An Injustice!

Belle Should Have Married Lumiere. There I Said It

On a cross-country flight last week, I found myself with exactly 89 minutes to kill and my finger hovering over the Play button on a…

9 min readNov 22, 2021

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Belle Should Have Married Lumiere. There I Said It

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If I Don’t Know How to Mourn You, Can I Make It Up?

I walk towards the homeless encampment carefully. Which is to say, as if it’s not there.

15 min readAug 5, 2021

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If I Don’t Know How to Mourn You, Can I Make It Up?

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Diana Helmuth

Why I Prefer Working With Moms

We’ve all seen it. If you are capable of growing babies in your body and also desire to work outside the home, you’ve probably felt it: the…

5 min readMay 12, 2021

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Why I Prefer Working With Moms

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The Bold Italic

Vitamin Supplements to Help You Manage Fascism

Supplements to help you de-stress while democracy fails

5 min readSep 22, 2020

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Simple illustration of a person sitting anxiously inside a pill bottle, 5 capsules on the ground outside it.

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The Bold Italic

My Attempt at Actual ‘Social’ Distancing

We may be physically isolating, but we’re completely overindulging in online communication

9 min readAug 31, 2020

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A bubble in space, containing a person sitting in a field by mountains, surrounded by mail/heart notification icons.

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The Bold Italic

Why You’ll Still Use Instagram After It Removes the ‘Likes’

The social media app offers more than dopamine hits

6 min readNov 12, 2019

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Why You’ll Still Use Instagram After It Removes the ‘Likes’

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Diana Helmuth

Diana Helmuth

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Natn'l Outdoor Book Award winner. Post Modern Cupcake. Pretty Cool but I Cry a Lot. Author of "The Witching Year."

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