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With Patricia (The Infophile) and Nicole

Self-help & resources for the rest of us

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It all started, as many things do around here, with Patricia being irritated.

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  • Relationship Advice for All Types
    Show Notes Patricia and Nicole chat about their upcoming wedding anniversary and share their tradition of rereading their vows every year. They talk about how the ways in which their vows have helped them maintain their romantic relationship and how they have been really useful in friendships and family relationships, too. It’s a bit of… Read more: Relationship Advice for All Types

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Patricia Elzie-Tuttle (aka Patricia Elzie) is a writer, podcaster, and librarian. Her weekly newsletter, Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice offers self-improvement and mental health advice and resources that pull from her experience as a queer, Black, & Filipina person existing in the world. More of her written work can also be found on Book Riot, in Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen, and, if you’re feeling spicy, in Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 4 edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. Patricia is co-host of the All the Books and All the Backlist podcast, where she recommends a variety of reads. She lives in Oakland, CA with her wife Nicole and a positively alarming amount of books.

Patricia Elzie-Tuttle (she/her)

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Nicole has eaten tacos in Sweden and Beijing.

Neither were remotely good. Not even passable.

Nicole Elzie-Tuttle (she/her)