HeyJaredChiming In with Elyse & David
We are gathered here today to get through this thing called life...
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My Happy Place (opens the original)
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The air is braided with the delicious scent of wet pine. I didn’t have to walk down the street to where the pine trees are actually growing to smell it. The breeze carried it through the tiny holes of the screened in porch, along with the promise of more rain.I plop down on the sofa and point it out to David.He smiles, blowing cool air across the rim of his coffee cup. “Does it smell like in your little Elyse camping days?”Even if it eventually gets cut from the book, David absolutely loves the
Permission to Wonder (opens the original)
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I wonder. A lot.I’ve come to wonder if I wonder more than other people. It doesn’t matter if I do. But I do wonder.I wonder what the squirrels are thinking as they chase each other in circles and then race up a tree. Are they having the best-day-ever kind of fun? That’s the way it looks to me.I wonder if the porch would be as amazing—or even better—as an all-season room. I wonder if it will be where the kids and grandkids have Thanksgiving dinner someday. I wonder who our grandkids will be and w
Just Ask (opens the original)
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It’s a typical summer morning in Virginia Beach. You can see the humidity. But the ceiling fan does the trick. David and I are having our porch coffee, chatting about our day ahead.“Hello?” I hear a woman say from out on the street. People walk by our house a lot, often in mid-conversation on their headphones. I’m sometimes one of them.I assume that’s what’s going on and continue talking with David, when I hear the same voice, slightly more emphatic than the first time. “Hello? Helloooo?” We sto
So Glad He Didn't Listen to Me (opens the original)
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Last week, I was watching some archival video footage from the 1900s—back when David and I first started dating. Before we had kids, when we were fancy-free twenty-somethings traveling the world.Even before smartphones, David had the most annoying habit of filming everything. He brought his video camera everywhere. Literally. Wore it like a crossbody purse, whipping it out at the most inopportune times. Friends rolled their eyes constantly. I wanted to throw the damn thing in the ocean. It drove
One Song (opens the original)
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One of my best friends, Em, has a best friend from long before me. By default, that makes her my best-friend-in-law—even if we rarely see each other. She lives the next state over. Her name is Jay.Jay has cancer. Breast to brain. Eight years of all the things. The treatments. The doctors. Multiple states.Em and Jay (and their husbands) see each other frequently and have traveled the world together, living life the way they would have without the diagnosis. Jay refused to let it stop her. But…Rea
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