HeyJaredThe Commonplace
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Grat Chat: September 2026 🍊 (opens the original)
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5 Quick Things #427 🍂 (opens the original)
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Happy first day of Autumn to all who celebrate! I absolutely, positively celebrate, but that’s about all I do, because it won’t feel like fall for at least another month around these parts. I’m quite used to it, so I don’t let it get me down... It’s all about the mindset, fellow southerners. We can’t wear scarves or hats yet (or, let’s be honest, even pants and long sleeves), so embrace all the fallness in your outlook on life, your drinks of choice, your scents around the house, your front porc
A Drink with a Friend is Back... ☕️ (opens the original)
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And live for a few of you! It’s been awhile, but I’m dusting off the podcast feed and returning to a new season of Drink. I’m back to asking friends about two books—one from their childhood, one recent—that’s shaped them in some way, but I’m also asking them about something else: what about places? What’s one place from childhood and one more recent that’s formed them, even in a small way, into who they are today?In this inaugural “dusting off” episode, I’m answering my own questions—and also ex
5 Quick Things #426 🏘️ (opens the original)
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We’re dogsitting for my parents this week, so we’re juggling life with two canines in the house right now. Both dogs get along great (my parents have dogsat for us for years), but it’s interesting how much of my focus throughout the day diverts to making sure one larger dog (ours) doesn’t intimidate the other one (theirs). Both are older, both are terriers, and both are sweet as can be—yet terriers like to, well, be territorial….and our dog is annoyingly loyal to me and thinks she needs to prote
5 Quick Things #425 🧈 (opens the original)
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We all remember where we were twenty-five years ago (though I think some of you reading this were pretty young and/or not yet born, which is wild)... Kyle and I, just friends at the time, were waiting in the passport line at the Istanbul airport, having taken a quick two-hour flight from Kosovo, where we both currently lived. We both had some vacation time from our stint as missionaries, so we decided to travel together (“just friends”1) and visit some friends of mine who’d moved to Turkey a few
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