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I tell stories, mostly with words, about the human condition as filtered through grief, parenting, and millennial nostalgia. Let me know if I can send you an email sometime to make you feel less alone.
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Diet Mountain Dew (opens the original)
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Hanging on the wall inside the law offices of Jonathan Ryan Johnson Esq. in Nashville, TN. is a picture of six young men in a hospital room in Provo, UT.Technically there are seven people in the picture if you include the hours-old baby that is being held by Tyrone.<source type="image/web
The Death of the Taste Gap (opens the original)
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Like every other god-fearing millennial raised on NPR and Trader Joe’s Puffins cereal, I have a deep and perhaps problematic adoration for WBEZ’s This American Life.It played in mom’s pick up on the way home from the Farmer’s Market in high school. It played on the iPod mini I took backpacking through the Andes with my ex-girlfriend laying in our tent sharing a pair of earbuds so we could hear every plot point at the same exact time. It played from the podcast app on my phone as I commuted to an
How to be cool. (opens the original)
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I recently reread Chuck Klosterman’s Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs and I was sort of appalled by how poorly it held up.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1000" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GaGG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:goo
Good News/Bad News (opens the original)
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Hey mom,the bad news is that Dolly Parton just died, the good news is that the rice cooker that you bought me at a yard sale in 2009 still works.Dolly was 80 which feels like it’s way too young for a person like her to die, then again the rice cooker is at least 16 which feels way too long for something like that to live - then again you were only 57.Becca came into the bedroom to tell me about the rice cooker and about Dolly…well that’s not totally true.She came to tell me that her first though
What if this is what dying is like? (opens the original)
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Disclaimer: Of course I don’t want you to leave. Selfishly, I want you to stay here for as long as possible, probably longer than you want to be. But I also don’t want you to be haunted by your own departure - or anyones for that matter. This is something that helps me when the ghosts feel overwhelming. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OOaX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpubli
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