HeyJaredMore Good Today
I hit the road for 3 years and 31 days to find more good. (I succeeded!) 50 states. 154 hosts. 43,000 miles. Here are some of my stories.
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What a Beautiful Youth (opens the original)
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“This is where it all began,” Éric told me.We were sitting on a park bench in Paris, in the same place where, fourteen years earlier, a stranger had said something that changed how his students saw themselves and the direction of Éric’s work.Until that afternoon, Éric and I had never met in person.Almost exactly four years earlier, on August 19, 2022, an English teacher in Paris had emailed me from more than three thousand miles away.“I have been collecting beautiful stories for many years,” he
If You Had 90 Days to Live (opens the original)
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I call her my death friend.She wasn’t supposed to be my friend in Paris. In fact, she wasn’t even there to see me.Jenni came to Paris because of my roommate, an old friend of hers whom she’d met years earlier through his own journey across the United States. She was staying with us for two weeks.Jenni is a death doula.Which, until I met her, I’m not sure I entirely understood.She began as an occupational therapist in a trauma center. Looking back, Jenni said she was doing “death work” long befor
A Bumble Date in Paris (opens the original)
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I met him for coffee the day I pressed submit on my proposal.It was a Thursday in July in Paris.Two months before I met him, I had finished my book. A book of one hundred stories I had collected while traveling across all 50 states after my mother died. A book I’ve called More Good.When I got off the road at the end of 2019, I had no idea what to write or how to write about what I had experienced. I had typed up thousands of words, and then, over this past winter, living in a cabin on top of a m
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