HeyJaredPatina with Dina Aronson
A midlife mood salad tossed with essays, reflections, real talk, and love by the coeditor of Midlife Private Parts: Revealing Essays that Will Change the Way You Think About Age.
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- Sep 11, 2026
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- Jul 17, 2026
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F*cks I Still Give (opens the original)
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Yesterday was my 58th birthday, and in the lead up I’d been thinking a lot about what I’m willing to spend my energy on and how that’s changed over the years. At this point in my life, I am acutely aware that I do not have unlimited time on this planet, and once you fully grasp that reality, you understand in a very meaningful way that there is little time to waste on things that just don’t matter. It’s interesting that for almost half of my life, my birthday has been punctuated by 9/11 the very
Bits & Pieces # 8 (opens the original)
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It’s been a LONG time since I’ve done a Bits & Pieces post— November 2024 to be exact! I love the hodgepodge, mood salad of it all, and I’m excited to revive it now that my life has returned to some semblance of normalcy post-book launch/tour, and with (what I hope is) the worst of the broken foot saga behind me. For a long stretch I was so hyper-focused on getting Midlife Private Parts into the world that I stopped regularly doing much of what I share— the bits and pieces— in these posts. I los
From the Archive: 500 Tabs (opens the original)
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Last week, I reached for my phone to open a website, only to discover that I had reached my 500 tab capacity. Again. The last time this happened was back in February 2024, when I wrote the below essay, so I’d like to think that making it almost 2.5 years before maxing out again counts as progress! This time, though, I’ll make no quick review of said tabs like I did before I closed them all out in 2024. Nope. No swiping left, one by one, like I’m rejecting bad date prospects (at least I think tha
Cutting Through The Smoke (opens the original)
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Some days it feels like armageddon out there– as I write this, NYC is blanketed for a 2nd day in an eerie haze from the drifting Canadian wildfire smoke. It’s not quite the hue of orange it was the last time it occurred in 2023, but at 90 degrees, with some crappy air quality, it’s pretty hard to breathe out there.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nS4_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.
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