HeyJaredPocket Treasures
On motherhood, writing, and things I’ve collected along the way
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“New to the World” (opens the original)
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I am not a poet. Of course I dabbled in writing gloomy poetry in my college journal, thinking that I was the first person to come up with rain as a metaphor for sadness. While I prefer the straightforwardness of prose, I greatly admire a poet’s precision of language. I love how it slows down life to an examined moment. I was diagnosed with postpartum depression a few months after having my second son. At my therapist’s encouragement, I tentatively started writing again for the joy of it. Not lon
Things I Did With My One Wild and Precious Morning (opens the original)
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Alternative title—How Quickly a Morning Goes: Reread a draft of something I’ve written. Decided it was pretty bad when compared to the book I’m reading: There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif S
Really Nice Rejections (opens the original)
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I wrote a short story in March that I thought was pretty good. In April I swung for the fences and started submitting it a some big-dog literary journals. Getting published in one of these feels like the equivalent of a un-connected high school senior with a 3.5 GPA getting into Harvard, but, hey, a girl’s got to try. So far, six of these journals have passed on the story.Despite this, I’ve gained some confidence from some really encouraging personalized rejections. Here was one I got from AGNI
Only My Own Dreams Are Fascinating (opens the original)
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Dreams are only interesting to the dreamer. Although I know this is true, when I have a wacky/weird/wild one, I have a compulsion to tell my husband about it.Last week I sent him a link that psychoanalyzed a recurring dream I’d been having (I am packing for a trip, but don’t have enough space in my suitcase for all of my stuff; how am I ever going to decide what to take; I’m already late for my flight). When he came downstairs from work, I asked him if he’d read it. He said he hadn’t… and then t
The Highly Sensitive Mom and Kid (opens the original)
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A few years ago, I read a book called The Highly Sensitive Person. At the beginning of the book there’s a quiz you can take to see if you are
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