HeyJaredStories From My Family Tree
Nonfiction stories focused on personal memoir and family history
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Daily Art Practice (opens the original)
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I made a commitment this year to create something—every day. In the spring, I took Figure Drawing II. It was easy to fill several sketchbooks with studies of body parts and other small minutiae. By the end of July, I needed a break. August became a vactation from the sketchbook, to recharge, and to think about what I wanted to do next. My creative focus shifted to writing and knitting my way through buckets of yarn scraps.The fall semester started, and for the first time in several years, I was
Memories from Mt. Wachusett (opens the original)
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Over the last few weeks, I have scanned a lot of photographs, sorting and labeling decades of old pictures. It’s an endless battle to archive my family’s history. Many of the moments I no longer remember, the images captured when I was too young. But others, like trip to nearby Mt. Wachusett, when I was ten, lingers in my memory.Mt. Wachusett is the tallest peak in eastern Massachusetts, clocking in at just over 2,000 ft. The mountain is a glaciated monadnock, which means it stands alone and is
A View From the Kitchen - Chapter 2: Part 1 (opens the original)
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A View From the Kitchen - Chapter 1 (opens the original)
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First Day of Camp (opens the original)
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