HeyJaredFor Once in My Life: Making Of
For Once in My Life: Making Of is a behind-the-scenes look into the manuscript for For Once in My Life. It's like one of those bonus features on DVDs, back in the day.
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Unpacking Power, Privilege, and Diversity (opens the original)
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Last year through the ManKind Project, I took two classes, Waking Up to Whiteness, and Unpacking Power, Privilege, and Diversity. Both of these courses taught me about the assumptions I had made through life as a White man. Even though I considered myself to be non-prejudicial, I found that that was not enough. The only people who could champion the cause of and right the injustices of targeted individuals were those whom society had placed in the role of privilege. Namely, White, CIS-gender mal
Is Caregiving a Burden? (opens the original)
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For almost 18 months, I helped Arlinda through her final medical journey. First from a distance, then in person. It takes a lot of physical and emotional work to stay by someone’s side as their health declines. The question I kept encountering after the fact was Is the patient a burden to the caregiver?
Shopping on the Cutting Room Floor (opens the original)
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The first chapter does a lot of heavy lifting for the book. It gets the reader situated with the story, setting up expectations of what is going to happen. This chapter out of all of them needs to be lean. Wiping a tear from my eye, I cut out this scene:<img alt=""
What Arlinda’s Biography Has Taught Me (opens the original)
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In writing Arlinda’s story, I struggled to make her life relevant to someone in this day and age. She was a dancer on a television show that, due to its immediacy, became less relevant to the generations born after the show ended.<img alt="Arlinda modeling wi
For Once in My Life Cover Reveal (opens the original)
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Arlinda handed me a manila envelope one day in 1995. I pulled out some modeling shots of Arlinda peering out from behind a telephone pole.<img alt="Arlinda peering out from behind a telephone pole" class="sizing-normal" height="888" src="https://substackcdn.com/image
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