HeyJaredFor Dear Life with Maggie Smith
A newsletter about writing & other things that make this life dear—from the poet, not the dame
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Scrapbook in Vignettes (opens the original)
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Hi, Friend.The other day I had a drink with my good friend Isaac Fitzgerald, who was in town for a book event. Our conversations are always wide-ranging, no-bullshit, and both serious and full of laughter. No small talk! One of the things we chatted about over our usual cocktail order—a Silver Dollar Pony—was social media. How were we using it? What apps did we regularly use and which were sort of atrophying? How was social media useful or community-building or distracting or demoralizing (or al
Pep Talk (opens the original)
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New Podcast Announcement! (opens the original)
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Hi, Friend.I love hosting The Slowdown, sharing a poem and a reflection with you each weekday, and I’m delighted to be returning for one more season, too! But I also have something very different in development right now that I’m excited for you to hear: a new podcast series I’m making with WBUR (Boston’s NPR). It’s called You Could Make This Beautiful, and I’m co-hosting it with my friend Faith Salie, who you probably know from CBS Sunday Morning and NPR’s </span
On Asking (opens the original)
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