HeyJaredThe Distracted Writer
Mom of three boys sharing original fiction and stories about the writing life, not getting published (yet), and the distractions that make life lovely.
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- Sep 16, 2026
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What Painting My Laundry Room Has to Do with Publishing a Novel (opens the original)
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"Do You Regret Having Kids as Early as We Did?" (opens the original)
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I ask my husband this question as we are enjoying dinner, sans kids, at a restaurant in the same resort where we spent our honeymoon, ten years and three kids ago. Without a moment’s hesitation, he answers no. “I just mean, I used to think if I could go back, I’d wait a few more years,” I say. “Only with the promise that we could have the same exact kids we have now.”Joseph reminds me that we did wait a few years, dating for nearly four before a year-long engagement, and waiting two years into m
Jesus Was Once an 8-Year-Old Boy (opens the original)
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Did he ask litanies of questions—Why does the wind blowAnd how is bread madeand how much longertill we get to the temple—wearying his parents for answershe already had, so they might know his love in the wayhe sought the cadence of their voices.Did he sometimes forget his own body, leapingon furniture, snappingbranches as he climbed too high,hugging his mother too fiercely, half-barreling her over in his need, still, to be heldin his transforming limbs.How thin was the line betweenhis clevern
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