HeyJaredCreepsakes
I left a digital trail like a slug oozing slime: incandescent in the light, but something no one wanted to touch.
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Creepsake #35 (opens the original)
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I keep a painting I made, once, of a road curving upwards. I created this painting in Painting, one of the four art classes I took in high school to earn an Academic Honors Diploma, something I thought was very important at the time, but ultimately didn’t mean a whole lot since I went to a state university that didn’t even care. I had to take four art classes to fulfill the Fine Arts requirement for the Academic Honors Diploma: Intro 2D Art, Painting, Pottery/Sculpture, and Art II. I was not an
Creepsake #34 (opens the original)
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I am dealing with a lot of emotions right now—like anyone, like everyone; it’s no excuse but it is an explanation. I am working on edits to shape a book manuscript that I’m not even sure I will publish, and it is difficult material. I dropped my oldest daughter off for her first year of college, and my house is still holding space around her absence. This eclipse is exhausting me and I need to direct my energy elsewhere, so I’m doing a reprint of a blissfully unrestrained essay I wrote about my
Creepsake #33 (opens the original)
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This summer I have been watching the reality show “Farmer Wants a Wife,” taking the show in so thoroughly that I recently dreamt about it: I dreamt that my husband was on the show and I was one of the potential wives living in the house with him and I felt smug because I knew I had a home-field advantage, I knew so many things about him but mostly I knew how to caretake the house “the way he likes it,” which is a joke in waking life because I caretake our house the way I like it and I don’t thin
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