HeyJaredHave I ever told you...
Reflections on over a decade in the classroom, relationships with family, and my journey healing generational trauma
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16 years ago (opens the original)
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TW: Sexual ViolenceThe Body Keeps the Score. I’ve had the book on my shelf for almost a decade and I still haven’t finished it. I bought it because i wanted to learn about the body’s capacity to remember what the mind cannot—what my body had remembered that my mind could not. but i stopped reading after the first chapter on Vietnam war vets and PTSD once i realized this book was not actually for me, once I realized how trivial my experience was in comparison to survivors of war who’d lived throu
great expectations (opens the original)
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I’ve always found it rather gauche to make a big hooplah out of birthdays past a certain age, barring significant milestones. I’m simultaneously horrified and envious of people who shamelessly promote theirs every year announcing, “It’s my birthday week!,” or the even bolder “It’s my birthday month!” Horrified because the introvert in me can’t fathom demanding attention in such a blatant way; envious because as an adult, birthdays just make me anxious: Should I plan something? What if no one com
Broken English (opens the original)
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As a reading teacher and a writer, I have always loved language. There’s a certain magic in finding just the right words to express a thought or feeling, especially those elusive, seemingly indescribable ones, and in doing so, making real what was once only imagined.When I try to pinpoint where this love first originated, I think of the apartment I grew up in. My mother had 4x6 index cards labeled in thick black Sharpie taped to all the walls and furniture: 책상 / desk. 의자 / chair. 침대 / bed. What
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