HeyJaredRecovering American
Personal essays on travel, exile, belonging, and wonder – written by a recovering American learning how to live elsewhere.
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Greetings from the Inferno (opens the original)
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Well, things have been quiet here on my Substack, but not because I haven’t been writing. I’ve been working on an essay about the heat waves in France for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Written as a series of postcards, one for each heat wave, it’s out today! Below is a sneak peek of the opening three paragraphs, and a link to the rest of the article.Dear America,I’m hiding out from the heat in my air-conditioned apartment with the fan on high and a borrowed cat tucked away under the bed in my
The Hidden Figure in La Doutre (opens the original)
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I took an Uber to my first appointment with my new physical therapist, Corinne. It’s only a mile to her office, but I have myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and my energy has been exceptionally low lately, and I knew walking even one way would be too much for me, which is frustrating because one mile is such a walkable distance.We crossed a bridge into La Doutre, a neighborhood I hadn’t explored yet because I’ve been too tired to do much exploring. As we drove down a sh
Angers in Frames (opens the original)
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Just dropping in here to say that I captured a photo of the elusive Boutché when I returned to her salon for a trim the other day.As she was cutting my hair, I pulled out my phone and asked if I could take a shot. We’d never gotten one for my post about meeting her and receiving a great cut while learning about how America came to her home country’s aid in its time of need, and she’d told me by email we could take one when I returned.But Boutché wanted to fix her hair and put on a little makeup
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