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GHOSTS!


Greg Ruth

Of all the seasonal and year long creatures to be spooked by, for me personally since I was very young and menaced one night by a deranged and nightgown-barefooted granny on our dark neighborhood street, it's always been about the ghosts for me. I'll digest anything on the subject, and have lived 5 years in a certifiably haunted old building in Brooklyn... all of these cornerstones happily in the past. I still adore them as…

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Forge Ahead


Vanessa Lemen

June 19, 2025 - When I start to write these articles here on Muddy Colors, I am often stricken with this strange dichotomy of being vulnerable in the sharing of something meaningful to the world and wondering if anyone even reads these anyway. Sometimes, my anxiety is so strong that I just need to post something that will not allow these feelings to bubble up. These types of articles are usually the ones that become the sharing of a few favorite tools or a quick bullet-point of the progression of a recent piece. But most of the time, I feel it’s truly important to really try to push past the feeling I get of worry and lack of worth, anxiety and dread, and share something meaningful, something human and thoughtful. It’s important to me. And it also scares the…

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