HeyJaredSomething True
✨Where midlife magic meets mindful living✨ Soon to be reporting in from Edinburgh, Scotland!
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 6
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 15, 2026
Latest issues
In my mind, you’re on my publishing team (opens the original)
Read excerpt
It was the early oughts, and I was working in the Whole Body department at Whole Foods. Whole Foods was still newish, hippish, and decidedly not Amazon.I enjoyed introducing customers to what were then oddities: essential oils, herbal remedies, flower essences, and homeopathics. My inner perfectionist was soothed when all the tiny bottles and jars were front-faced and in tidy rows. And I liked the camaraderie of the market, of knowing the tattooed guys at the fish counter, and the retirees at ch
Saffron pulled me out of the story (opens the original)
Read excerpt
<img alt="flowers in small vases with name labels" class="sizing-normal" height="307.0989010989011" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v8XV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimag
My summer of Claude (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Hello there! Eye surgery. Eeek! It will (hopefully) be no big deal, but it is on the muscles around my eyes, and I expect to be swollen and offline for a bit afterwards.I didn’t want to start our discussion of books that might fit in the dark botanica genre when I couldn’t enjoy rolling around in the stacks with you. So today we have a piece I’ve been thinking on for months. Hopefully it will get you thinking too.On the autumn equinox, I’ll get our season of dark botanica properly rooted. I’m so
Change is good, right? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Join me in uncovering the secret stories of the green world!Starting on the autumn equinox, I’ll be sharing writing from a project I’m calling Dark Botanica. This is in support of a novel I’ll be quietly writing in the background.You’ll get a monthly themed essay in your inbox—no need to do anything! By becoming a paid subscriber, you’ll get access to the reading room (my variation on a book club) and get to look over my shoulder as I visit historic gardens and libraries, compiling my research n
It's all about the chicken (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I just put a chicken in the oven.I realize this sounds like no big deal. You’ve probably put multiple chickens in the oven over the past month and thought nothing of it.The path to this particular culinary moment was thwacked through the brush of a garden party gone blustery. Instead of enjoying the mock orange, clematis, and the rose named after my friend’s mother, we were gathered round her dining room table. As the dishes were cleared and desserts brought out (puddings here in Edinburgh), the
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.