HeyJaredA New Wrinkle | Diane Roth
Writing about the GenX experience with humor (or trying, at least).
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Now This Is What I’d Call a Sacrifice (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,I haven’t been posting as much recently, and there’s a simple reason that has nothing to do with procrastination.I’m back in the classroom after a nine month hiatus.Some people might not sweat this change, but believe me, I’m sweating it in more ways than you can imagine.First of all, as if creating an interest in journalism weren’t challenging enough when speaking to 18-year-olds, I’m often wringing my hands about simply keeping my students awake at eight o’clock in the morning. Ye
Game On! - Part 2 (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,Thank you for reading part two! Well, I made it through my first class, and it wasn’t too terrible since I just had to go through my syllabus. Or maybe I should say that it wasn’t too terrible for me—I won’t speak for my students! But the burning question on your mind isn’t if I survived my return to teaching after a nine-month hiatus. You want to know if I survived mahjong.In my last post, I told you about my trip to the local library, where I was determined to learn mahjong, even
Game On! (opens the original)
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Dear Friends, It’s been a while!I don’t have a great excuse other than fall semester is upon us, and I’ve been focused on my college class that will kick off this week. Since I’m teaching a new, journalism-adjacent class, I have to create a course syllabus, fret about how to avoid AI use among my students, and expose myself more regularly to the news all at the same time. It’s a a somber trifecta. My new wrinkle for this newsletter is literal—a deep line across my brow that’s a by-product of all
A Query Quandary (opens the original)
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***Note: This isn’t the topic-du-jour, but I just want to give a shout-out to The Belladonna for sending me a questionnaire about that humor piece of mine they ran on their website. Those lovely editors put up my answers to their questionnaire on Friday. I wanted to let you know in case I can create a little extra traffic for them since they so kindly created traffic for me. It’s the least I can do! It was already an honor to be published on their sit
Look Out Ben & Jerry's, We're Your New MAGA Competitor (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,I admit it. When I see it’s “National-Anything Day” right now, I feel like moving to Canada—even with the wildfires. Because if I’m in a country going up in flames, well, better not to have an orange mob boss in charge. Since I’m not actually going anywhere, though, when I saw that National Ice Cream Day was on July 19th, I tried to figure out the next-best thing to packing my bags—other than eating ice cream (this truly might be the one national day that has a built in coping mecha
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