HeyJaredSinging the Tune Without the Words
Finding grace in the ordinary, unsexy parts of life, like reading, walking, and folding the laundry. Sometimes the essays are about the sexy parts, as well.
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manuscript in progress (opens the original)
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In the fall of 2006, I was newly pregnant with what would have been our fourth child. It was November. Short days, slate skies. That year, instead of a coat, I had taken to wearing a huge black sweater, wool, with long sleeves that I had to roll and roll and roll just to find my hands. It had a high, shawl collar that puddled in thick folds around my face. When our children were cold, I carried them on one hip, wrapped inside my sweater.When blood appeared in my underwear one morning. I knew imm
how we ate an extra-large box of CSA veggies in three days; or, how Barbara Kingsolver changed my life (opens the original)
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Hello, friends, and happy almost fall! As I write this, we are less than one week from the fall equinox!1 It’s hard to believe summer is almost officially behind us. Especially hard because the STL region is in the midst of yet another heat advisory, with heat indices up to 109 all week! EEK! Regardless of what it feels like out there, there’s no arguing with the calendar. September is marching on, and after September comes October, and everything is everything<a class="footnote-anchor" href="#f
fifty-six things I love (or don’t) (opens the original)
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Fifty Six Things I Love (or Don’t)I am in favor of almost all trees, under almost all circumstances, even the stinky ginkgo, but rarely the Bradford Pear.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1941" src="https://sub
what I want you to know about the man I was married to for 26 years (opens the original)
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yes, it’s another Dolly Parton tribute (opens the original)
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I must admit, I’m not exactly a Dolly Parton super fan. I know all her greatest hits, for sure, but, for the most part, I don’t love soprano voices—I find something too sharp about them, something unsettling.1 Yet it’s impossible to ignore Dolly’s2 cultural significance: how wonderful she was as a human, how talented a musician, and how generous a collaborator—musically, philanthropically, philosophically.9 to 5 was
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