HeyJaredLiving the Questions
Essays from the American South about parenting, faith, sobriety, and culture, and the sacred that lives inside all of it, whether we're paying attention or not.
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The New York Trip I Planned and the One We Had with the Golden Girls (opens the original)
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“What was your favorite part of yesterday?” I asked my ten-year-old daughter Sterling as we rode around Central Park on our second morning in New York City.“Watching Golden Girls together.”This was not the answer I was looking for. The day before, we had flown to New York for her tenth-birthday trip, something I’d been planning for months. Instead of presents to open in July, my husband and I gave Sterling a mother-daughter weekend in New York to see Wicked on Broadway and Brett Dennen, one of h
The Distance Between Mediocrity and Greatness (opens the original)
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I haven’t been writing lately. This is partly because I’m busy researching for a new book, but mostly because I have writer’s block. I’ve heard people explain that writer’s block is nothing more than self-doubt blocking a writer’s ability to create. And I suppose one could argue self-doubt is necessary because you need the ability to look at your own work with a critical eye to evaluate and improve your writing. But I also wonder: are self-doubt and a critical eye two entirely separate things? D
Water Wants to Move (opens the original)
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When we bought our house, we didn’t know there was a creek behind it. Calling it a creek may be generous. It could be called a drainage ditch, carrying runoff water from our neighborhood. The back of the property was so thick with bamboo and undergrowth that you couldn’t see anything behind it. Somewhere behind all that green was an old chain-link fence, and somewhere beyond the fence, hidden from view, water was moving.My children were a bit unconvinced this yard could give us anything beautifu
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