HeyJaredfrom the bog
from the bog is an uninhibited space to explore life + womanhood with occasional fiction writing + poetry.
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- Aug 28, 2026
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- Aug 4, 2026
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i was trying so hard to be palatable, i forgot to be myself. (opens the original)
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We all know what it feels like to feel unwelcome and unwanted. I most recently experienced it in a work environment and that is one of the worst places to experience it. A place where you spend nearly 25% of your time is not somewhere you want to feel ostracized, unwelcome, or out of place. When we allow the fear of being disliked to take over, it can be incredibly hard to show up as yourself and authentically. Read more
if i had a daughter (opens the original)
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If I had a daughter, I’d tell her everything I know. Teach her everything I know. I’d teach her how to put herself first. How to say no. I’d teach her all the things I didn’t know too; learn alongside her. Like how to change a tire, because my dad showed me when I was a teenager and busted one of mine on a curb in my first car and I’ve never had to since.I’d teach her how to believe in herself, to trust herself. She’d be her number one authority, and even when that clashed with mine as her mothe
oh, hello august. (opens the original)
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that how quickly you arrived prickles my brain.The existential reminders you and the heat bring now.Time doesn’t move any slower. I blink and I’m 36, though my mind has been forced to go back to my 26 year old self.Where did that time go, August? Between then and now?To life and living and loving and exploring. To moving and processing and healing and all the like.Oh, the things I’d do differently at the end of that portal. But let’s not dwell there, August. Let’s remember: I needed home, family
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