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DEAR DEAN<br />
M A G A Z I N E<br />
S E E T H E C O V E R F O R T H E<br />
V E R Y F I R S T T I M E P . 5<br />
N e w N o v e l !<br />
F E A T U R E D B L O G P . 6<br />
A M E R I C A<br />
S U P P O R T S<br />
R E P A R A T I O N S<br />
V O L . 2 | F E B . 2 2 , 2 0 2 2<br />
A S K D E A N<br />
L o v e E d i t i o n<br />
P . 1 5<br />
M Y R O N ' S<br />
H I T<br />
O R<br />
M I S S<br />
L I S T P . 1 2<br />
L O V E I T O R<br />
H A T E I T M O V I E<br />
R E V I E W P . 1 3<br />
+ H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y<br />
M Y R O N J . C L I F T O N<br />
T e e n l e t ! P . 4
T H E G O O D S<br />
Hello from Myron p.3<br />
Happy Birthday p.4<br />
New Release p.5<br />
Featured Blog p.6-10<br />
Hit or Miss List p.12-13<br />
Movie Reviews: Love it<br />
or Hate it p.13<br />
ASK DEAN Advice p.15-16<br />
My Writing Journey p.18-19<br />
Ads p.21<br />
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | p.2
HELLO FROM MYRON<br />
Black History this year comes on the heels of America again reckoning with racism.<br />
From 400 State bills introduced over the past year that are designed to limit voting by<br />
Black people, Black citizens are as always called to defend ourselves while we call upon<br />
America and the Democratic Party to do its damn job and protect our voting rights.<br />
With irrational attacks against Critical Race Theory and multiple states banning books<br />
by Black authors, Blackness is under attack.<br />
The month saw Amir Locke, a Black man, murdered when cops busted into his<br />
apartment on an evil no-knock warrant and murdered him. The cops were at the wrong<br />
house.<br />
The NFL’s racism was again exposed after Brian Flores, recently former coach of the<br />
Miami Dolphins, shared text messages from hall of fame coach Bill Belichek that<br />
congratulated him on being hired as the new head coach of the New York Giants. The<br />
only problem is, Flores had not yet interviewed. Do’h!<br />
The process was exposed as a sham and to the NFL’s shame, they’ve done nothing to<br />
address the racism in the league that is majority Black players but has only one Black<br />
head coach. It is a disgrace. But as long as Jay-Z, Snoop Dog, Kendrick Lamar, and Mary<br />
J. Blige can perform at halftime of the Super Bowl, all is well?<br />
Black History month also find us with the first Black women Vice President, Madame<br />
Vice President Kamala Devi Harris, and Biden/Harris said they will nominate the first<br />
Black woman to the Supreme Court.<br />
Blackness endures, fights back, thrives. As always.<br />
I just hope that one day I can live the entirety of my life as part of the home team.<br />
Myron J. Clifton<br />
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | p.3
Happiest<br />
birthday to<br />
Leah <strong>Dean</strong>,<br />
who turns 17<br />
this month.<br />
Happy<br />
Birthday!<br />
2-22-2022<br />
I can’t believe the big headed little bald<br />
baby is already 17! It has been a fun, wild,<br />
hard, rewarding, frustrating, fun, learning,<br />
and absolutely beautiful experience raising<br />
her and being part of her expanding life.<br />
A junior in high school now and about to<br />
(finally) work on getting her driver’s<br />
license, I’m looking forward to the next<br />
days, weeks, months, and years, as the<br />
world opens itself for you and your<br />
generation.<br />
Hearts.<br />
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | p.4
COMING SOON!<br />
New Release: Jamaal's Incredible<br />
Adventures in the Black Church<br />
Before Jamaal's seventeenth birthday, he’s appointed as his preacher uncle’s<br />
designated driver and unwilling personal confidant. Behind the fine outfits and<br />
hats, behind the delicious cooking, Jamaal is exposed to crazy aunties, sexy church<br />
sisters, corrupt pastors, and predator deacons. A good kid who just wants time to<br />
finish his homework and kiss a girl his own age, Jamaal is dragged through the<br />
strange world of the Black church. You best pray for him.<br />
Release date and pre-sale<br />
information coming soon!<br />
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | p.5
Blog<br />
DEAR DEAN<br />
F E A T U R E D<br />
AMERICA<br />
SUPPORTS<br />
REPARATIONS<br />
A 3 P A R T S E R I E S
F E A T U R E D B L O G<br />
As American cities,<br />
industries, and individuals<br />
newly grapple with the<br />
comprehensive effects of<br />
systemic and blatant racism,<br />
many are again surfacing<br />
the question of reparations.<br />
Reparations for Black Americans is not a new<br />
concept: Newly freed former enslaved Black<br />
people sought it immediately after becoming<br />
“free” people.<br />
Free people who were without land, money,<br />
wealth, income, or purchasing power or the right<br />
to vote.<br />
People whose free labor had enriched America<br />
and the western world, were now set adrift with<br />
no means of recouping their wealth from the<br />
country used their free labor to build the<br />
wealthiest country in the world. And no way to<br />
even earn what they could in a so-called free<br />
enterprise country.<br />
They could not even ascertain seed money or<br />
loans to start something building their wealth<br />
like they had built wealth for white people.<br />
It is worth noting the newly freed Black people<br />
did not want free money or land, although they<br />
certainly were entitled to demand compensation<br />
and reparations. They wanted what they worked<br />
for and what had been uncompensated for<br />
generations. And though money was needed and<br />
should have been returned, the biggest ask was<br />
for land.<br />
The freed Black citizens had farmed the land for<br />
hundreds of years and they knew how to work<br />
the land, sell their goods, feed their families, and<br />
take care of one another.<br />
They knew how to build wealth and<br />
communities.<br />
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | p.7
B L O G C O N T I N U E D<br />
They were not asking for “free money,” they were<br />
asking for the return of what their labor had given<br />
to America — and what America stole.<br />
Our ancestors wanted a chance. They wanted a fair<br />
shake. They wanted the opportunity to be full<br />
citizens who worked to feed and care for their<br />
families – the same as what we want today.<br />
And they wanted what the former slave owners<br />
got: Reparations.<br />
Reparations is a word that requires a “trigger<br />
warning” for some people, so we are going to start<br />
by reframing how we talk about reparations.<br />
Change:<br />
“U.S. Government paid reparations to ...”<br />
to<br />
“Black Americans paid reparations to….”<br />
Using “Government” causes people to mentally<br />
substitute “White people” because people assume<br />
the owners of America and America’s money as<br />
being exclusively white people.<br />
In fact, Black people are co-owners of the country<br />
and the country’s wealth, even if that wealth is not<br />
in our bank accounts. This simple change, I believe,<br />
will help most people understand one part of our<br />
demand for reparations while also working to<br />
change the incorrect assumption that Black people<br />
are merely riders on the wealth contract in<br />
America.<br />
Now that we have changed how we frame and talk<br />
about reparations. Let us look at all the people and<br />
entities who have received reparations from Black<br />
Americans.<br />
Black Americans paid reparations to former<br />
slaveholders.<br />
The American media holds the<br />
matches that ignites the flames<br />
that spread the hate and racism.<br />
They profit off the misery they<br />
push onto the people.<br />
Former slave owners petitioned the government for<br />
reparations, demanding compensation for losing “their<br />
property” and they won.<br />
Most reports say slaveowners received $300 per lost<br />
enslaved person but that number is incomplete when<br />
factoring in what they *really received in the form of free<br />
labor from the enslaved – men, boys, women, and girls, for<br />
generations. (We will assign monetary value in parts 2 and 3.)<br />
Enforcers of slavery also often received free land, reduced or<br />
no taxes, and profits from enslaved labor… for generations.<br />
Black Americans gave away millions of acres of free land<br />
Almost simultaneously, as America wanted to populate the<br />
western states, Black people gave massive amounts of<br />
western land to settlers (colonizers) as the nation expanded<br />
its footprint, while needing to encourage eastern and<br />
southern people to go west.<br />
Black Americans gave white settlers 160 million acres of<br />
land under the Homestead Act starting around 1862 for the<br />
nation, but it started earlier in Washington and Oregon.<br />
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | p.8
B L O G C O N T I N U E D<br />
"These acts allowed individual white people and white<br />
owned corporations to build wealth using Black<br />
Americans tax dollars and labor to do so."<br />
And there were other land giveaways including:<br />
Southern Homestead Act of 1866, Timber Culture Act<br />
of 1873, Kinkaid Amendment of 1904, Enlarged<br />
Homestead Act of 1909, Stock-Rising Act of 1916,<br />
Subsistence Homesteads provisions under The New<br />
Deal of 1930, and the Small Tracts Act in 1938.<br />
In each of these cases Black people were either<br />
explicitly denied or prevented by force and<br />
intimidation from participating and receiving a fair<br />
share of our land.<br />
These acts allowed individual white people and white<br />
owned corporations to build wealth using Black<br />
Americans tax dollars and labor to do so.<br />
Black Americans paid Reparations to Europe Twice<br />
Black Americans gave Britain and France around $10b<br />
to finance their World War 1 efforts.<br />
Then in what is commonly known as The Marshall<br />
Plan, Black Americans bailed out Europe after World<br />
War 2, to help them rebuild after, let us face it, white<br />
people went crazy and tried to enslave or destroy the<br />
world.<br />
The money given from our taxes was $22b or close to<br />
$200b in today’s dollars.<br />
Black Americans paid Japanese Americans<br />
reparations<br />
The U.S. government flexed its racist muscle at home<br />
during World War 2 by placing eighty-two thousand<br />
Japanese Americans in concentration camps. After the<br />
war, Black Americans paid Japanese Americans $1.6b,<br />
which equal to $3.5b in today’s dollars and was not<br />
enough then to make up for the atrocity our fellow<br />
citizens endured.<br />
In addition, Black Americans also gave Japan $2.2b<br />
dollars after World War 2, or $15b in today’s dollars.<br />
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | p.9
B L O G C O N T I N U E D<br />
"Black Americans have been underpaid from Juneteenth,<br />
1865 to right now, in every job we ever held. That is 155<br />
years of backpay."<br />
Black Americans gave Iraq $36b in reparations to rebuild<br />
after the war and gives them $3b annually.<br />
Black Americans have given Israel roughly $160b since<br />
the end of World War 2, the largest amount of reparations<br />
to any country.<br />
Black Americans gave the auto industry $80b in<br />
reparations.<br />
Black Americans gave Wall Street an estimated $1.9t in<br />
reparations during the most recent tax cuts, after giving<br />
them over $700b in the one prior, and trillions more over<br />
the course of history.<br />
Black Americans gave veterans reparations, called the<br />
G.I. Bill, or Serviceman’s Readjustment Act, close to $15b<br />
– without initially being able to get any of our own money<br />
for Black veterans.<br />
Black Americans gave wealthy people $2t in during the<br />
most recent 2016 tax cuts.<br />
Black Americans gave Small Businesses $700b in<br />
reparations in the recent budget, and trillions since the<br />
SBA started in 1953, though Black people are least likely<br />
to get SBA loans.<br />
Black people subsidize State Universities, private<br />
colleges, and charter schools,<br />
Black Americans give farmers $20b per year, and Black<br />
farmers have decades long lawsuits trying to get their fair<br />
share.<br />
Black Americans give homeowners $70b a year in<br />
reparations for mortgages – reparations mostly given<br />
to and used by white Americans.<br />
Black Americans subsidize middle class and wealthy<br />
Americans by paying more for food, goods and<br />
services, gas, insurance, interest on credit cards, car<br />
purchases, and home loans.<br />
Finally, and to bring reparations back to the beginning,<br />
Black Americans have been underpaid from<br />
Juneteenth, 1865 to right now, in every job we ever<br />
held.<br />
That is 155 years of backpay.<br />
Black people have given America and the world tens of<br />
trillions of dollars in reparations that America turned<br />
around and gave businesses, white people, colleges<br />
and universities, farmers, and dozens of foreign<br />
countries.<br />
The bill is past due and as co-owners of this country,<br />
we are not asking the government or “white people”<br />
for a handout or a loan.<br />
What we are demanding is that we receive OUR<br />
money back. The bill is past due, and the interest is<br />
growing<br />
Now that we have established that America does in<br />
fact love and support reparations, by whatever name<br />
we chose to use.<br />
Visit www.deardean.com to<br />
read Part 2 "Systemic<br />
Reparations," and Part 3<br />
"Reparations: Governing The<br />
Money," of this series.<br />
N E W B L O G S A R E F E A T U R E D O N W E D N E S D A Y S . V I S I T<br />
W W W . D E A R D E A N . C O M T O R E A D M O R E B Y M Y R O N J . C L I F T O N .<br />
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | p.10
"A BEAUTIFULLY<br />
WRITTEN STORY<br />
THAT OPENS YOUR<br />
EYES TO OTHER<br />
POSSIBILITIES TO<br />
HOW THE WORLD<br />
WAS CREATED.<br />
THERE IS SO MUCH<br />
TO TAKE IN, YOU<br />
CAN’T JUST READ IT<br />
ONCE TO REVEAL<br />
ALL THE HIDDEN<br />
MESSAGES."<br />
R E V I E W , H E R L E G E N D<br />
L I V E S I N Y O U
MYRON'S<br />
HIT OR<br />
MISS<br />
list<br />
You will either LOVE or HATE being<br />
on this list. It's time to call out the<br />
good, bad and the ugly as it happened<br />
on Twitter. We saw it live with our<br />
own eyes, and now it's time to review<br />
the best and the worst... saddle up!<br />
HIT<br />
Black History Month.<br />
MISS<br />
Anti-Blackness in America<br />
12 months a year.<br />
HIT<br />
Joni Mitchell and Neil<br />
Young demanded Spotify<br />
stop playing their music<br />
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | p.12<br />
MISS<br />
Spotify giving Racist<br />
antivaxxer Joe Rogan $100M<br />
dollars only to “discover” he’s a<br />
racist antivaxxer.<br />
HIT<br />
India.Arie tweeted a clip<br />
showing Rogan saying the<br />
hard “R” N-word about 20<br />
times forcing Rogen to issue a<br />
lame half-assed<br />
apology/excuse<br />
Continued next page
MISS<br />
Spotify deciding after the<br />
fact to delete 100 Joe Rogan<br />
shows because they are<br />
filled with him spewing the<br />
hard “R” N-word.<br />
HIT<br />
The Olympics, the opening<br />
ceremony, the athletes, the<br />
venues, and talent, skill, and<br />
comraderie.<br />
MISS<br />
NBC”s awful coverage, awful<br />
US-centric focus, terrible<br />
television hosts, and each<br />
show interrupted by<br />
nonstop commercials.<br />
HIT<br />
The Biden/Harris<br />
administration set a first year<br />
record with 6.6 million jobs<br />
added, wages up, and<br />
employment also goes up.<br />
MISS<br />
The media who predicted a<br />
doom and gloom jobs report,<br />
and then once the recordbreaking<br />
numbers were<br />
released, went silent.<br />
MISS<br />
Thousands of Black, Latino,<br />
white, and Asian artists<br />
remaining quiet while India<br />
Arie spoke up on their behalf<br />
against Joe Rogan’s racism.<br />
MOVIE REVIEW<br />
hate it or it Love<br />
Encanto - Love it.<br />
Incredibly drawn, wonderfully told, and of course the soundtrack is top-notch from Lin-Manuel Miranda.<br />
You’ll love the realistic multi-colorful family, all the versions of curly hair, and all types of body types and<br />
shapes for the many women characters. Parents beware: Your child will want to watch it over and over.<br />
And you’ll be singing “We don’t talk about Bruno” for days afterwards. Get into it though, you will not regret<br />
sharing the magic, feeling the challenges and traumas family carry through generations, and the way we can<br />
heal ourselves by dealing with ourselves.<br />
In from the Cold - Love it.<br />
A bonkers Netflix series sees a former Russian spy living in an American suburb, married with kids, living<br />
comfortably until the CIA comes calling. They force her back into the game and she helps them expose a<br />
spy ring. She does it with extreme violence, sex appeal, disguises, and a healthy dose of luck and gunfights.<br />
A fun, crazy, first season that set up an even crazier and wilder second season.<br />
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | p.13
MY FAVORITE<br />
THINGS...<br />
Streaming Right Now<br />
Apps - With all the hoopla<br />
about Wordle, I’m old school<br />
and still loving Classic<br />
SCRABBLE.<br />
Amazon Prime: The Expanse.<br />
Six almost perfect seasons<br />
of top-notch science fiction,<br />
incredible women<br />
characters, and the best<br />
action this side of Battlestar<br />
Galactica.<br />
Apple TV: Foundation. A<br />
slow burn that captures the<br />
spirit and broadness of the<br />
celebrated series.<br />
Netflix: She-Ra and He-Man.<br />
Completely different<br />
remakes of the fun originals.<br />
Go in expecting nothing but<br />
accept that you’ll enjoy what<br />
they’ve done with both.<br />
Hulu: Save Yourselves. An<br />
irreverent weird look at an<br />
alien invasion. Cosmos. Slow<br />
burn sci-fi about friends who<br />
study the night sky and one<br />
night think they see<br />
something.<br />
Paramount: Star Trek<br />
Discovery. A new “best” Star<br />
Trek series. Go ahead, dive<br />
in and remember why you<br />
love the Trek universe.<br />
Disney: Encanto. Stop<br />
fighting it and go watch it.<br />
Hawkeye. Look, his arc was<br />
problematic and Disney<br />
addressed it while<br />
introducing a very good Kate<br />
Bishop.<br />
HBOMax: Station Eleven. A<br />
post-apocalyptic study in<br />
how survivors distract<br />
themselves from their new<br />
reality. All the humanness<br />
remains, for better and<br />
worse.<br />
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | p.14
Ask<br />
DEAN<br />
T H E L O V E E D I T I O N<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong>,<br />
How long is too long when your partner doesn’t<br />
want to get married? We are going on 7 years and<br />
2 pets and I’m losing hope. Any advice?<br />
<strong>Dear</strong>, Married and don’t know it<br />
You are married, congratulations! In most states<br />
cohabitation for that long means you’re common<br />
law wife/husband so celebrate your anniversary<br />
this year – yay! Or, plan the rest of your life without<br />
them. And take care of the pets because it’s not<br />
their fault they’ve landed with you, two.<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong>,<br />
What’s the best pickup line or ways to start a<br />
conversation with someone when you really have<br />
no good reason for messaging them (aside from<br />
being obsessed with them??) Help me out, bro!<br />
I’ve been striking out lately!<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> Creeper stalker person,<br />
GTFOH. Social media stalking is gross. It is<br />
invasive. Think of it like YOU are the vampire and<br />
you can only go inside if you are invited in. Has<br />
anyone invited you to their DMs? No? Then go sit in<br />
the sun, Alucard.<br />
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | p.15
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong>,<br />
My husband and I work together (own our company)<br />
and recently at a meeting he publicly took credit for<br />
all my (genius) hard work. Do you think it is possible<br />
to get away with murder? Just kidding. But really,<br />
how do I bring this up without getting into a huge<br />
annoying fight? Thanks, appreciate the help!<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> Every woman who did something a man took<br />
credit for<br />
That sucks eggs, sorry. Tell him next time he does that<br />
you’re going to ask him to explain to the audience he<br />
is regaling with his (your) genius, in detail exactly what<br />
he did and how he did it. Then don’t save him when he<br />
starts looking like a fool. That’ll break his habits. Also,<br />
tell him with a definitive statement that you will talk<br />
about your work, he can talk about his. End of story. If<br />
it’s not the end of the story, decide if you want to be in<br />
business with an immature narcissist.<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong>,<br />
I have a crush on my best friend, and I feel like every<br />
movie, story, book, and cell in my brain is telling me it<br />
would ruin the friendship if I was honest about it, but<br />
I’m worried if I don’t act and he meets someone else.<br />
Is it too risky? If I get rejected, will we be able to stay<br />
friends? Orrr, what if he loves me, too?! Help meee!<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> the friend who has a crush<br />
That is thee worst position to be in, especially if your<br />
friend is in a relationship. If they are, keep it to yourself<br />
because that would be damaging to their relationship<br />
and your friendship. Just because you feel something<br />
doesn’t mean you have to share that feeling with<br />
anyone. If they are not in a relationship and you aren’t<br />
either, why not bring it up? Just go in knowing that the<br />
dynamics of your friendship will change for better or<br />
worse and you’ll have to accept the outcome.<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong>,<br />
My boyfriend is 15 years younger than me, and<br />
someone recently asked me if he was my son<br />
when we were in public. I was mortified and<br />
haven’t been able to get over it. Do you think love<br />
can last with such a big age difference?<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> Grown Ass Adult Lady Living Her Best Life<br />
Ignore the noise and enjoy that young man and all<br />
his energy and compliance to your every whim and<br />
wish. If it were reversed he would be celebrated so<br />
you should too. The only tip I have is to keep him<br />
on his feet and tell him to keep improving his…<br />
skills.. or you’ll replace him like a shower curtain.<br />
If you want to submit your question and<br />
possibly be featured in future issues, go here.<br />
and you shall receive!<br />
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | p.16<br />
Ask
“BLM-PD IS A PAGE TURNER! GREAT<br />
CHARACTERS, VIVID VISUALS &<br />
WRITING THAT BRINGS EMOTIONS.<br />
LOVE THE BOOK AND THE FACT THAT<br />
IT ALSO PROVIDES REAL-LIFE<br />
EXAMPLES OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN<br />
OUR WORLD TODAY. LOVE THE<br />
FEMALE PERSPECTIVE THROUGH<br />
LEADERSHIP, INTELLIGENCE,<br />
RESILIENCE, FRIENDSHIP & POWER."<br />
R E V I E W , B L M - P D
MY WRITING JOURNEY<br />
H O W I T A L L<br />
S T A R T E D .<br />
Sharing my writing journey to encourage you if you wish to write or do that thing you can do.<br />
My friend Katya Juliet @44for4moreblog gifted me a blog for my 50th bday & told me to write weekly &<br />
she’d manage blog. She designed it and 7.5 years later still runs it and I still write weekly blogs.<br />
She gave it as a gift & distraction from my divorce. So I did it.<br />
I post every Wednesday or so and have for these 7 years. I’m not a trained writer and you may know I<br />
dropped out of HS so thankfully my grade school teachers taught me something about words .<br />
Once the blog was going well I decided to write a book.<br />
The audacity to stretch one’s talents is the greatest audacity of all.<br />
Found my editor from visiting my local library & she’s still my primary editor & writer development helper.<br />
This is my first book. On kindle & Amazon. It’s beautifully written, edited, designed by “my team.”<br />
Why not write a novel then? I asked myself. So I did, and surprisingly it was “rather easy” to do, until said<br />
editor chopped it up & sent me back to my laptop.<br />
I got it together though, and it turned out fabulous, sad, thrilling, & cathartic for readers and…me.<br />
Oh, it got hate, too.<br />
The good reviews, my love of writing, and encouragement from my team and friends, inspired me to write<br />
the prequel to BLM-PD and set in same world. Monuments: A Deadly Day at Jefferson Park includes a few<br />
of the beloved characters from BLM-PD, but this time tackled confederate monuments and their<br />
prevalence in the nation. The novel is violent and satisfying.<br />
My next try was to take stories I’d written over the past seven years and consolidate them into a story<br />
collection. My first attempts at sci-fi, horror, satire, futurist, absurdity, urban horror. I also made all seven<br />
stories an individual E-book on their own with each priced at $1.99 to be accessible to folk.<br />
Last year my friend Katya Juliet @44for4more pitched me on this digital magazine you are enjoying. The<br />
magazine will have guest contributors and shout-outs to other creators who share their work.<br />
Sign up here<br />
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MY WRITING JOURNEY<br />
I’ve recently begun working with a new proofreader Donna Lane @dbwrite4u who’s working on two<br />
projects for me after helping with my upcoming novel, and copyrighter Brian Macian @brianmacian<br />
who helped clean up all my blog posts.<br />
Whats next?<br />
I have three projects in the works right now that include:<br />
A new novel that is finished will be released soon.<br />
Another story collection - long form this time - and a few stories I think you’ll love.<br />
A picture book /vanity project that’ll delight you<br />
A book of essays about mom- A new Podcast that launches in April “Voice Memos” with my friend<br />
Jennifer @redheadedvegan as part of Greg Howard Jr.s @thepodcastguy1 and his Joyful Warrior<br />
Podcast Network @theeJWPN<br />
I hope you’ll join us across all our media.<br />
And I hope my content satisfies, challenges, questions, & brings you joy.<br />
Myron J. Clifton<br />
www.deardeanpublishing.com<br />
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I N P A R T N E R S H I P W I T H<br />
B U Z Z W O R D C O N S U L T I N G<br />
D E A R D E A N M A G A Z I N E I S D E S I G N E D & C U R A T E D<br />
Katya Juliet Lerner<br />
I N T E R E S T E D I N A D V E R T I S I N G ?<br />
Send an email to words@deardeanpublishing.com<br />
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Saturn has 62 moons.<br />
Saturn goes around the Sun very…slowly,<br />
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