HeyJaredGrazing
Essays, book recommendations, recipes and more from a recovering sportswriter who spends nearly all of her time reading, writing, baking, cooking and eating.
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don’t get a kitten (opens the original)
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Lately: My baby loves polenta. My cat died. My husband got his first New Yorker byline over the weekend. This essay is about one of those things.Did you make it here without subscribing? Let’s fix that.<input class="button primary" type="submit" va
charred scallion and feta dip (opens the original)
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Lately: I’ve been cooking and baking a lot more — nowhere near as much as I did pre-pregnancy, but still a lot by any reasonable standard. It’s been about 10 months since I was able to move back into my renovated kitchen, and I realized over the weekend that not everything was where it belonged. Combine that with Eva starting solid food — more on that next week! — and I decided I needed an overhaul. I scrubbed the fridge, bought tiny little baby food storage jars, moved equipment into different
everything made-up I read in May and June (opens the original)
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Lately: I’ve been reading books on the Libby app on my phone. As someone who vastly prefers turning paper pages, this is dispiriting, but as someone who’s all too often trapped by a napping five-month-old, this is also essential. My minutes (who am I kidding — hours) spent on Instagram have plummeted, and I’m becoming a person who can sort of juggle reading two books at once. This is hard! One book is physical, the other … metaphysical. One book, I’m realizing, must be fiction, the other nonfict
talk nonfiction to me, yeah, yeah, yeah (opens the original)
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Lately: Lately? Lately, I have not been keeping up with my reading round-ups! I was going to combine May and June into one massive newsletter, but I realized that was just too many books at once. Ultimately, I decided to group them by fiction and nonfiction, in large part because I’ve been reading more nonfiction than usual lately. (Stay tuned for a big fiction download in a few days.) … The timing of this dispatch dovetails nicely with a story I read before bed last night in the Atlantic, about
in defense (and repulsion) of baby talk (opens the original)
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Lately: I’ve been meaning to send this newsletter for three weeks. Not write, not edit — just literally press the “publish” button. But I have the brain of a flea when it comes to anything not directly related to feeding, playing with, talking to or organizing the possessions and living space of one Eva Dougherty, aged four months. For me, that is the chaos of motherhood: not a dirty house, not sleep deprivation — just a total inability to devote more than six brain cells a day to anything unrel
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