HeyJaredJane’s Calamity
Comitragic cogitations on a brazenly eclectic range of topics, including perimenopause, politics, writing, books, mortality, excess tupperware, and failing at mindfulness
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I’m entering my banjo and bell-bottoms era (opens the original)
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I have a habit of using body-of-water metaphors when writing about my life: The crappy little boat trip of my daughter’s cancer. The river of the first 50 years of my life versus the lake of now. (A lake that occasionally goes rogue.)But I’m going to spare
The sky has never been that blue since (opens the original)
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This isn’t what I had planned to post today; I have a whole other post mostly written, about AI and how I’m thinking about and making choices around it lately. It includes a fun account of my brief, co-dependent relationship with my Google Health coach. (He’s not the brightest, but was nonetheless a compelling figure. We had fun. I’m planning to dump him when the free trial ends tomorrow.)HOWEVER, since the news came out a few days ago that, basically, AI is probably going to kill us
Telltale signs that the kids are home from college: A photo exposé (opens the original)
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I am not feeling well at the moment — possibly a virus, possibly heat exhaustion triggered by an ill-advised climbing session in an extremely hot, humid gym, possibly a physical manifestation of low-grade existential malaise. Maybe a 48-hour tumor? The possibilities are endless! But while my limbs are listless, my heart is full: We’ve got both of our kiddos home at the same time again for a few weeks before they go back to college, Clio having recently returned from 6 weeks in Argentina. Life ju
A prayer to the crone goddess, whom I shall call Helga (opens the original)
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There was an opinion piece in The New York Times last week titled “Ladies, We’re Entering our Crone Era. It’s About Time.” I hoped maybe it would be about embracing aging and, you know, normalizing and celebrating looking like this:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M66o!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-p
Some exciting news (opens the original)
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It’s so hard to sit on good news for weeks (or longer!) but I wanted to make sure everything was 100% certain before I started shouting it from the mountaintops and the internets. (Mostly the internets.) And now I can: I sold my new novel! Woohoooo! (Apologies to those of you who follow me on the ‘gram and the ‘book or the …. ‘In (?) who already know this.)<a class="image-link image2 is-viewa
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