Jayne Says
I’m a South Jersey-based writer, journalist and mom, taking a bold stab at sharing my voice. I write weekly about marriage, grief, parenting, memory, and midlife—what simmers beneath the surface when life doesn’t go the way you pictured it.
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Who Shall Live and Who Shall Run Away? (opens the original)
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Clop. Clop.As the High Holidays approached this year, Brave Sir Robin came clopping horselessly back into my head, his merry minstrels behind him, singing of his bravery.The hoofbeats were faint at first as I chopped vegetables, marinated lamb, peeled and cored apples. They grew louder as Cary flew home from North Carolina and Lee made his way up from Delaware for Rosh Hashanah. The Jewish New Year.This wasn’t Sir Robin’s first Rosh Hashanah with me. The knight from Monty Python and the Holy Gra
Virginia is for lovers, and other things I wasn’t ready to see (opens the original)
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Snakes followed me home from Peru.The latest ones appeared on my yoga mat. In downward dog, I looked down and realized the yellow lanterns I had always seen there were serpent heads, their bodies coiled beneath the spiraling mandala.Once I saw the snakes, I couldn’t make them go back to being shiny, happy decorations.It felt like that moment in The Sixth Sense when the boy tells Bruce Willis’s character, “I see dead people.” Bruce doesn’t get that he is one of the ghosts. He isn’t ready to see i
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