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Barrie Kreinik
- Mar 15
- 4 min
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure a (pandemic) year?
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Barrie Kreinik
- Feb 12
- 4 min
Goodnight, dear void...
Who am I writing for? (And does it matter?)
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Barrie Kreinik
- Nov 17, 2020
- 5 min
Let freedom ring...for everyone
What happens when your liberty negates my rights?
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Barrie Kreinik
- Sep 29, 2020
- 3 min
The sound of silence
What do I write when the world is unutterable?
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Barrie Kreinik
- Sep 10, 2020
- 4 min
Defying binaries—the trouble with either/or
What happens when we refuse to choose?
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Barrie Kreinik
- Aug 26, 2020
- 6 min
Once upon an actress
Remembering that one dream started out as two.
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Barrie Kreinik
- Aug 12, 2020
- 5 min
This is what's happening
In-the-moment living amid a global health crisis.
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Barrie Kreinik
- Jul 29, 2020
- 6 min
I see London, I see France...
Memories of an epic pre-pandemic journey.
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Barrie Kreinik
- Jul 15, 2020
- 8 min
An actor's life for me
Being a performer can be hard. Here's one way to make it easier.
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Barrie Kreinik
- Jul 8, 2020
- 4 min
City of ghosts
Around every corner is an apparition from my past.
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Barrie Kreinik
- Jun 30, 2020
- 6 min
Love, loss, and what I listened to
Finding solace in the healing power of verse.
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Barrie Kreinik
- Jun 24, 2020
- 6 min
Queen of corona
Did I actually have COVID-19? I might never know for sure.
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Barrie Kreinik
- Jun 17, 2020
- 6 min
How do we identify? (And...should we?)
We are who we are...and so much more.
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Barrie Kreinik
- Jun 10, 2020
- 5 min
Blue, brown, black, white—empathy in action
Lessons in antiracism from Jane Elliott and Jewish ethics.
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Barrie Kreinik
- Jun 3, 2020
- 5 min
Verbification, and other made-up words
Maybe it's time we reconditioned the word "friend."
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Barrie Kreinik
- May 23, 2020
- 8 min
Welcome to the blogosphere...
To post or not to post? That is the question.
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