Katie DeBonville

Does the White House really need a ballroom more than kids need to eat, the arts need support, or cancer needs a cure?

Hey @yahoo.bsky.social, what’s going on with mail access today?

Memory When I was twenty-five and worldly, President Clinton declared that he

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Things that break my heart I'm on an abecedarian kick...

This is what happens when you write at 1:30am. open.substack.com/pub/kdbonvil...

Thoughts and Prayers Take your thoughts and prayers,

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Katie DeBonville on Substack Words to live by. Or, you know, read.

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Katie DeBonville on Substack I grew up on Sesame Street. I remember Bert’s bottle cap collection and Ernie singing about his rubber ducky. I know that twelve ladybugs attended the ladybug picnic. Speaking of the number twelve, an...

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What’s the over/under on POTUS offending someone at the Pope’s funeral?

If paying taxes is what makes someone a viable citizen, then the occupant of the White House is about as non-viable as it gets.

Evolution We used to resist

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Sick: 51 Years Later With apologies, and eternal gratitude, to Shel Silverstein; if you know, you know.

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Katie DeBonville | Substack Writer. Fundraiser. Musician and music lover. More lyrics in my head than I can count! Click to read Katie DeBonville, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.

This was intended to go in a different direction, but the words go where they go. kdbonville.substack.com?utm_campaign...

April Fool’s Day isn’t as funny when you’re living in a nation run by sycophantic power mongers.

Vote for the best of the internet I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

My friend Larae’s film “Echoes of Ailey” has been nominated for a Webby. You know what to do: VOTE. It’s three minutes of beautiful. vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

Dear World This is not a letter of resignation.

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REM needs to come out of retirement and re-record “Radio Free Europe.”

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Canada is like that one friend who would do anything for you, but you don’t want to piss them off. I can respect that.

Tonight I walked past two rats on my way home from the theatre, and I thought, yep, that’s on brand with the world right now.

Republicans saying they don’t want their tax dollars to go to schools because they don’t have kids is like me saying I don’t want my tax dollars to go to expenses incurred from the president playing golf because I don’t play golf.

Hey fellow writers! Tonight the president will address both houses of Congress, and I will not watch. That got me thinking: what if everyone here were to use that time writing, and then post what we write? Let’s do it!

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This Presidents Day, let’s focus on the crimes being committed by the current occupant of the office.

Massachusetts: Where it can be 14 degrees out but you’ll still get asked, when ordering coffee, if you want hot or iced.

If you’re overwhelmed and want to support something but aren’t sure what, find an arts organization that resonates with you and make a gift. When you do, you support artists who create, perform, teach, and remind us what it means to live in a world that values beauty. We need art and art needs us.

Out of curiosity, what’s it costing us to keep the president safe at the Super Bowl? I would think that’s an inefficient use of American money. I mean, since we’re cutting back and all…

Right now, every person who works for a nonprofit arts organization should be asking themselves, "What would I do right now if I worked for the Kennedy Center?" And then they should prepare to do it.

I invented a new word: existentialhaustion. If you need a definition, you don’t feel it.

Turned on the news and caught the words that someone was found “dead inside” and my immediate reaction was “that’s harsh, maybe he’s just really angry” before I realized they were saying someone was literally found dead inside a house.

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