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On the Way Home

Things I'm finding, learning, and loving while I'm making a space that feels like home. This is about a house, but really, it's about a life.

Newsletter · By Jessica Fralin · Official site

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  1. Issue · Aug 14, 2026

    Un-Niche Your Inhibitions* (opens the original)

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    I refuse to niche down. Perhaps this is my Enneagram 8-ness — if anyone even cares about the Enneagram anymore. But I think there’s more at play, and I suspect I’m not alone in it. Lately, I’ve seen a lot of social media posts yearning for “the old Instagram” — you know, when we’d all post a single photo, poorly filtered or not at all, and the people who follow us would actually see it; when comment sections were filled with people commenting on our actual photo instead of a slew of RECIPE, WANT

  2. Issue · Jul 30, 2026

    Coming Home to Myself (opens the original)

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    Remember when I re-started my Substack and then promptly abandoned it again? My first instinct is to go, “Ah, that was embarrassing.” But actually, I’m not embarrassed; I’ve simply been going through it in every hard, weird, beautiful, surprising way and only now have some things that might be worth saying. Welcome back, me, again — I guess this is what it’s like to be on the way home. In no way do I want this to be a personal life recap, so let’s suffice it to say that 2026 has included (but is

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