HeyJaredDr. Small Talk
A bi-weekly newsletter about all the topics my mother banned from the dinner table.
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Labor Day weekend long read (opens the original)
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As usual, summer has flown by. Also as usual, all my dreams of making progress on various writing projects crashed and burned in the face of taking care of people and things, feeding crowds, hosting guests, shuttling kids around, and finding ways to address the 500+ pounds of cucumbers my garden produced. I also took a genuine two-week vacation at the end of August, during which I learned how to use my sewing machine, did a lot of canning, and finally finished reading David Cannadine’s masterful
South Dakota diary (opens the original)
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Who could have possibly guessed that traveling with six children (and my mother) would leave little time for writing? I had hoped to offer a play-by-play of our journey, but found that A. trying to write while Mufasa was in motion made me carsick, and B. Once we got to camp, there was too much to do, too many people to feed, and generally too much commotion for thinking or writing. In short, dear reader, you’re getting a retrospective in two parts as opposed to a real-time diary, recounted in th
South Dakota Diary (opens the original)
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