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Category: Insights

My post on Threads about Taylor Swift and Juan Soto got over 125,000 views so far
June 1, 2025June 8, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

Your words are not your own and other lessons from going viral (again)

A reference image from my work in progress
May 27, 2025June 1, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

AI reconsidered

Embroidered tallit bag my mom made me for my bar mitzvah.
May 8, 2025May 15, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

We’re more than Auschwitz

Title page of my draft novel White Lies with comments by my professor, Dr. Jewell Parker Rhodes.
April 25, 2025May 2, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

White Lies and broken men

The opening paragraphs of my novel Amiga transcribed into PaperClip for the Commodore 64.
April 20, 2025April 25, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

Don’t confuse history with nostalgia

A plush friend and me
January 17, 2025January 18, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

Your last good day

Sunrise over a suburban street
January 12, 2025January 17, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

What gives me hope

The Eight of Swords from the Hanson-Roberts tarot deck
January 6, 2025January 12, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

The Eight of Swords, captivity, and freedom

Paperback of Dad, I Want to Hear Your Story
December 27, 2024January 6, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

What we leave behind

Reseda High School Holiday Concert December 1976
December 6, 2024December 13, 2024 Matthew Arnold Stern

The real “War on Christmas”

Lid from a souvenir Wicked popcorn bucket
December 3, 2024December 6, 2024 Matthew Arnold Stern

“Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?”

A Thanksgiving flag
November 21, 2024December 3, 2024 Matthew Arnold Stern

Gratitude as self-defense

Our cat Gretel
October 10, 2024October 31, 2024 Matthew Arnold Stern

“The least of these”

The infamous free roll of toilet paper
September 9, 2024September 18, 2024 Matthew Arnold Stern

The risks and rewards of going viral

What dropping 82 pounds looks like
September 1, 2024September 9, 2024 Matthew Arnold Stern

Why I’m not the same person I was in 2019

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