HeyJaredOur Lady of Substack
Essays and poetry re: devotion, birth, motherhood, and the holy reclamation of one's own mind.
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- Aug 21, 2026
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In the Interim (opens the original)
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Pollen Nation (opens the original)
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When I returned to regularly publishing here, I wasn’t sure I could do it. I’d freshly emerged from a nauseated first trimester and felt that I lost my footing when it came to the focus and discipline required of a creative mother who wishes to write on schedule. So, I did the first necessary thing to make way for my own thriving, which was to create an editorial calendar that began the first week of school and continued on through January (my expected birthing month). Once that structure was in
Milk Mantras for New Mothers (opens the original)
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Only Fear Could Tame Us (opens the original)
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I am big and round again, like the rosehips on the rose bush and the nectarine atop my kitchen counter — still hard, not soft. These round things contain the seeds of lives that aren’t their own. I too am full of life that is not my own. It is of my own making, but it is not mine to live. Rather it is mine to birth.Normally petite, I feel the weight of … Read more
Bountiful & Beauteous (opens the original)
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I feel so good about writing this first entry for The Daily Muse. It’s like time traveling back to the olden days when I used to write a weekly column for my university’s newspaper, The Vista – of which I was the Editor in Chief. Prior to becoming the boss, I was the editor of the Arts & Culture section, and when I was promoted I let myself keep the column I had been writing for a few years. It was my favorite thing to write of all the things I was writing, and the rhythm of doing it was such
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