HeyJaredJanelle Hanchett
Notes from an American in The Netherlands. Has forgotten the rules.
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A couple of things I wish more Europeans understood about Americans (opens the original)
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I recently returned from three weeks in the United States. I went to California, flew into Sacramento, hung out with my friends and family there, then headed to Sonoma County where I saw more family. My stepmother, sister, and I spent a weekend in one of my favorite places in the world: Mendocino County. I haven’t been there since 2018. I wonder how long it will be before I go again. It’s a rather arduous five-hour drive from Sacramento, where I usually hang out when I go home, so a rare occurre
The silence of middle age (opens the original)
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I wrote a “mommy blog” (why do those words make me cringe so deeply?) for nearly ten years, and felt oddly comfortable, maybe even justified, in giving that era thematic centerstage of my writing.It felt worth speaking about. It helped that I’ve always viewed motherhood as inherently political, and my own path through motherhood as an active then recovering alcoholic further expanded the boundaries of discourse, but really, the topics of pregnancy, early motherhood and child-rearing felt worthy
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