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Janet Mason is an award-winning creative writer, teacher, and occasional blogger for such places as The Huffington Post. Her book, Tea Leaves, a memoir of mothers and daughters, published by Bella Books in 2012, was chosen by the American Library Association for its 2013 Over the Rainbow List. Tea Leaves also received a Goldie Award. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her novel THEY, a biblical tale of secret genders (Adelaide Books – New York and Lisbon) was featured at the 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair. Adelaide Books also published her novel The Unicorn, The Mystery late in 2020. Her novel Loving Artemis. an endearing tale of revolution, love and marriage was published by Thorned Heart Press in August of 2022. Her novel CINNAMON, a dairy cow's (and her farmer's) path to freedom was published by Adelaide Books in 2024.

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Dec 13, 2025 ∙ 5 min
Finding the Light–#UU #amreading #Hanukkah #Wintersoltice
I am reposting this talk that I gave to mark the occasion of Hanukkah. The talk was a Unitarian Universalist (UU) service that was called “Ringing in the Light.” I talked about my childhood memories of being touched by Hanukkah and my experiences in celebrating the Winter Solstice and with the Gnostic Gospels. You can see my words below on the YouTube video or read the reflection below that. (a UU talk I gave seven years ago) As far back as I can remember, the light beckoned. The sun was a...
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Dec 7, 2025 ∙ 3 min
What if everything really is connected? -- a #UU talk on #Buddhism #amreading
This morning, I participated in a Unitarian Universalist service on Buddhism and contributed a short reflection and meditation. My talk is below on YouTube, and the text is pasted underneath. As a practicing Buddhist and a Unitarian, I’ve come to the conclusion that religion is like breath: it belongs to everyone. As I’ve said in print about my novel, THEY, a biblical tale of secret genders,  “the evangelicals don’t own religion—even if they think they do.” Hope is associated with religion....
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Dec 1, 2025 ∙ 4 min
World AIDS Day — Surviving a Plague: When Literature Invokes Life
Note: I am re-blogging this in honor of World AIDS Awareness Day, which was on December 1st 2025. Every now and then comes that rare book that brings your life rushing back to you.  How To Survive A Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS  by David France (Knopf 2016) is one such book. The book chronicles the AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s – when the mysterious “gay cancer” started appearing — to 1995 when hard-won advancements in research and pharmaceuticals made...
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