HeyJaredLorraine Boissoneault
An exploration of language, literature, and the environment through the lens of chronic illness/disability. Come for the cute critters, stay for the surprising insights.
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Unintentional Experiments (opens the original)
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I did an interview with the “Healthy Climate America” podcast! It was a lot of fun to talk with Dr. Lisa Patel, who’s the executive director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health. It’s about how the weather affects our bodies, of course. You can listen here. A few years back, I wrote a story for the Templeton Foundation about the archaeological site Göbekli Tepe. Located in southeast Türkiye and dating back some 12,000
Five Months of Body Weather (opens the original)
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RECENT NEWSEmily Wojcik of The Massachusetts Review wrote an incredible review of Body Weather. I’m so grateful to her deep reading and engagement with the book! She’s the dream reader, honestly. You should also check out her Substack about living with MS, “Wheelchair, Bound.” <a class="embedded-post" href="https://themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/storms-ahead?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web&embedding_publication_id=5377852
Building Better Worlds Together (opens the original)
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It’s back-to-school season, which always makes me a little nostalgic for childhood. I loved school. The new supplies we got every year, learning interesting things, playing four-square at recess, spending time with friends. Learning has always come easy to me, so I didn’t even mind the homework. But the one thing I really did not like was group projects. Being smart and being a girl was a terrible combination for these graded exercises. Unless I got paired with a good friend or fellow smart stud
Little Losses Adding Up (opens the original)
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Some NewsI had a great conversation with for her newsletter, in which we talked about Body Weather, the things climate change and chronic illness have in common, and the ways we as a society do (or don’t) deal with them. You can find it here: <img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" sr
What Counts as a Community, Part 2 (opens the original)
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In between days of rain and storms last week, I walked to the park closest to our house to get some fresh air and sun. I stopped to look at the little wetland strip on the eastern edge of the park, at the bottom of a small hill. The water was high, but not overflowing onto the grass. Dozens of plants grow on and in the water and the buzz of insects almost overpowers the sound of traffic. And there were dragonflies everywhere, I realized. Big ones, zipping through the air, silhouetted against the
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