HeyJaredPretty When You Smile
Short essays and poems. Illness and healing, grief and love, motherhood, making art, belonging, growing up, growing old. Words to keep you company.
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- Sep 17, 2026
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- Jul 10, 2026
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Inheritance (opens the original)
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Inside Out: A Sensory Meditation (opens the original)
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Memories: What...or Who Are They? (opens the original)
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Things People Say (opens the original)
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Although I get paid to write for other people, I don’t know as much about the actual rules of writing as you might think. Or, maybe that’s completely obvious if you’ve hung out here a while. Thankfully copywriting, and this writing, doesn’t care so much about rules. I was about to say that what I do know is the feeling of words, and also the meaning of words, but even that can be subjective. Of course there’s what the dictionary says about meaning, but how we live with words, both within and out
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