HeyJaredCircling the Center
A monthly piece of flash memoir, for human centering in a whiplash world
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- Aug 21, 2026
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- Jul 29, 2026
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Clothes don't make the woman (opens the original)
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None of the clothes Aida had on when she met me on her porch last week were hers. Sausaged into burgundy spandex leggings topped with a faded black tee-shirt sporting characters from an early-aughts Nickelodeon show, she grinned and signed “pizza restaurant dinner” before grabbing my arm to pull me down the steps. The outfit was suitable to our cooling Pacific Northwest summer evening once she removed her winter coat, so I let go my questions of who the clothes actually belonged to and followed
The trouble with Jimothy (opens the original)
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Jimothy is giving all of America a hard-on for cute disability this summer. I guess we need something to feel good about now that the World Cup is over. But Jimothy feeds our empathy jones without asking anything in exchange. Here’s why I won’t be buying the T-shirts featuring this “scrappy underdog” anytime soon.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_tWZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.c
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