HeyJaredEmergency Contacts
Exploring the power and possibility of intimate friendship in cultivating community, raising family, and making art.
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Summer Report Out (opens the original)
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I observe the energetic start of summer: Memorial Day weekend, obviously. Ignoring the constraint of consistency, I then cling to the astronomical end of summer (the autumnal equinox), drawing things out to their very last drop. Conceding the end of the season at Labor Day is for losers who lack imagination: everyone knows summer in New York is usually an institution worth prolonging. In any case, by any measure, summer is now over.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://subst
Reinvention is the Best Medicine (opens the original)
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Any Millennial survivor of the LiveJournal and Blogspot era can tell you that writing your identity is A Lot. We knew it before the current tsunami of personal intimacies laid bare by the Tiktoks, Reels (and yes, Substacks) of the modern era. What takes even more brio is knowing when you need to detonate your careful construction of personal missives, and redefine the identity you’ve crafted on —and for— the internet. I first read ‘s writing when her newsletter was known as “The Opt Out” — explo
A Hospital Visit; A Death (opens the original)
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Last week, during his waning days of parental leave, Andrew spent a long morning in the ER. The afternoon stretched on, and night fell. While I slept, woke, and now dandled the baby just out of frame at my staff meeting — Andrew had been spirited away from the ER in an ambulance, spending the night at the very same hospital we’d left two months ago with Meena in arms. Instead of checking in at the visitors’ desk, this time he’d entered on a stretcher. Probably, at that very moment, he was floati
Scenes from a Heatwave (opens the original)
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My feet are tucked under me in the armchair by the window. I’m nursing the baby with one hand, and cradling a steaming mug of coffee in the other. Libby is in the kitchen, cooking a frittata and telling me about her first ex-husband.The window shades are drawn, just as they’ve been in my apartment downstairs for the last two days. It has served the intended effect of keeping the house minutely cooler. It’s also kept us in cathedral-like seclusion, the light diffused and soft.Libby doesn’t live h
Rhaina Cohen's "Emergency Contacts Confessional" (opens the original)
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It’s no secret Andrew and I are big fans of Rhaina Cohen’s thinking and writing . Her work has helped bring context and understanding to families like ours, which center friendship.1The calling we share is speaking loudly about pursuing the life you want, instead of the life you are “supposed” to have. Rhaina has an essay out in the brand new book <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/816934/living-together-by-samantha-
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