HeyJaredPainting the Golden Gate
Exploring what exists in the middle—of parenting, of health, of life. Fifteen years into raising a child with severe epilepsy, I am always looking for the both-ness: the many ways we end up a sum of our best luck and most challenging experiences.
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Kettle Ponds (opens the original)
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Last month we went to the cape, to the place we’ve taken our kids every summer of their less and less young lives. This kind of annual trip to the same spot with the same people marks time funnily. Some years blend. Sometimes when we arrive we feel like we just mini-golfed at Cape Escape yesterday, not a year ago. Sometimes we can’t believe how long ago it was that we lived here after dropping my oldest off at college in Boston, in the dark days of the pandemic. Always when we go to the cape, we
Words of Wisdom (opens the original)
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My youngest got his wisdom teeth out a few weeks ago. This is, by design, never fun. But of course it is sometimes funny.I don’t think I recorded my oldest post extraction, or at least I can’t find the video if I did. It was the day before the world shut down for Covid and everyone was masked up and jumpy and in no mood for lightheartedness. But I’m guessing her anesthesia haze wasn’t dissimilar from another time she was under and woke up telling me she was Jesus.My older son came to ranting abo
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