Archive - Tell it True

My grandmother stayed up half the night to do her creative work as an artist

Risks, trade-offs and the little quotes that fueled Grandma's do-it-anyway approach

May 29 •

Whitney K. Pipkin

April 2025

On the value of vulnerability, and the need for guardrails

Apr 25 •

Whitney K. Pipkin

Just Because We Can, Does That Mean We Should?

Thoughts on the body, beauty and AI

Apr 14 •

Whitney K. Pipkin

March 2025

I Bit Off More Than I Can Chew

Mar 19 •

Whitney K. Pipkin

January 2025

Resolutions I'm too scared to make

and not nearly brave enough to keep

Jan 6 •

Whitney K. Pipkin

December 2024

Solstice, ‘Self-Care,’ and What You Really Need This Holiday

I want to write so many things this Saturday before Christmas, this darkest day of the year before the dawn.

Dec 21, 2024 •

Whitney K. Pipkin

November 2024

On numbering our Novembers

The quiet glory of the in-between months

Nov 21, 2024 •

Whitney K. Pipkin

August 2024

More focus, more fun

Slowly becoming what we want to be

Aug 30, 2024 •

Whitney K. Pipkin

June 2024

On Aging Motherless

The privilege, the ache

Jun 27, 2024 •

Whitney K. Pipkin

May 2024

'Poetry itself is memory'

How poems help us name what we otherwise can't

May 9, 2024 •

Whitney K. Pipkin

April 2024

Wistful thinking

Nostalgia for the past, 'Farsickness' for the future

Apr 26, 2024 •

Whitney K. Pipkin

March 2024

On Pruning & Pausing

Learning to cut away, to leave space, to listen

Mar 29, 2024 •

Whitney K. Pipkin

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