HeyJaredClover Stroud: On The Way Life Feels
I write about the moments that make up our extraordinary lives, especially related to creativity, relationships, sobriety, motherhood, grief and joy. I like hearing other's experiences too, so we can connect through a sense of our shared humanity
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Can we talk about the unreality of now? Because I keep thinking I’m losing my mind, and I think you might feel like this, too (opens the original)
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I keep thinking I’m losing my mind. For a while I thought it was because of the destabilising feeling of moving countries. I kept telling myself that if I did the things that helped me ground myself, and just read a few more novels and burned some more candles and walked through the fields enough and picked enough blackberries and hugged friends sometimes, that this unreal, spinning feeling would stop. Real life would become tangible again. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="http
Why our stories matter - and one stellar piece of writing advice that often gets overlooked. (opens the original)
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I am writing this on a keyboard so sticky, it’s giving me a shiver reaction, as Dash calls it. Everything about this morning is nice, apart from the keyboard. It’s 630am on Sunday morning, and I’ve already stepped outside to walk the dogs in the quiet early morning light; there is a cup of tea beside me and the house is sleeping. But the computer! The reason my keyboard is so gross and gummy is that I’m writing on the crap computer with the missing keys and slow reactions, the old one relegated
A story of special educational needs, state school promise, and what you can really achieve with the right degree of determination (opens the original)
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Last week was a bit like a microcosm of life: some things and even whole days went really, really well, and the moment dazzled, but there were also some things that went badly wrong, that threw me into a great deal of chaos and mess. I am not going to go into what these where, as ultimately, the mess is of a practical nature, and like all practical mess, can be cleared up. I just need to get out my wheelbarrow and shovel to clear up the mess, which I’ve done, ahem, many, many times before. Subsc
Things I am doing this Autumn to create a stronger and more profound sense of home (opens the original)
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I made a mistake, three months ago, when we moved back to England, after three years in America. I thought that feeling settled “at home” would happen almost immediately. It had taken a long time to settle in America, and feel at home. I got there eventually, so much so that I miss feelings of America a lot now. I lived in Washington DC for three years, and spent long chunks of time in the American west, including Wyoming, Montana and New Mexico, but mostly west Texas, so there are elements of t
How not to spend a bank holiday weekend (opens the original)
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This is a free post because, well, you’ll see…Well, that was definitely not the cheerful, end-of-summer, celebrating-the-rain and seeing friends kind of bank holiday I had been really, really looking forward to. Not at all. I’m writing this on Monday evening, having just left the house for the first time in five days, and until about an hour ago, the on… Read more
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