HeyJaredPajamas and Pearls
What happens when you step off the conveyor belt and seek wisdom beyond data
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On The Road to Fine (opens the original)
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Last night my musical algorithm jumped into old, distantly familiar territory. Its been gradually changing, since sent me a beautiful performance of “She Used to Be Mine” by Sara Bareilles (joined by Rufus Wainwright at the Kennedy Center; you can watch it here), and sent me to Brandi Carlile school. So naturally, Pandora (I just like it more than Spotify, get over it) started redirecting me to the artists of my younger self. Nostalgic, yes, but not having the breadth of life at that age, the so
The Ghosts Without (opens the original)
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I’m one of the most confident women you’ll meet. Except when I’m not. Woven into the soft spots of my underbelly exist little pockets of doubt; generational beacons of impending instability, generational belief that the rug can at any time be pulled from underneath my defiant stance. I’m choosing to break this pattern, yet it continues to scream from time to time from the strands of my DNA, and despite its voice becoming more and more distant, I hear it nonetheless.While talking about starting m
Dynamics of Interesting People (opens the original)
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Last night I went to a family dinner. It wasn’t my family, but one that has adopted me into their fold. They are talented and quirky and educated and diverse in expertise, and each brings a unique form of joy or trouble to the table.My first friend and I have a long history. I am her younger sister’s best friend since age four. She was too old to want to play with us, but young enough that when she “babysat” for me in junior high we broke all of my mom’s rules together and watched MTV, waiting h
The Art of Not Knowing (opens the original)
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I like to know things. I’m not just talking about the intellectual curiosity that carried me through fourteen years of higher education, dabbling in multiple instruments, reading hundreds of biographies, and traveling the world. I spent my life with a fear of not knowing. It came from a deep, subconscious space created in early childhood. It is imbedded in my fight-or-flight sympathetic nervous system. And while I’ve mostly overcome this (its an ongoing process), I still like to skip to the end
The Big Change (opens the original)
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The Big Change is here. No, not menopause; I’m a doctor and I will never go through that shit. HRT all the way, baby! (It’s safe for me personally; check with your own doctor for your own risk/benefit discussion.) Well that sure made things weird. I wasn’t a debutant, so it isn’t unusual for me to make an inappropriate entrance.Until recently I hadn’t written for a year. I thought I was fine, but I had some incubating to do, the scope of which I hadn’t anticipated. Someone I trust deeply told me
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