HeyJaredThe Field Trip
Unserious virtual field trips from an American mom living in Italy. Be worldly without the jet lag.
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Let your women keep silence in the churches (opens the original)
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I have burned through three hotspots faster than Ophelia burned through Thomas’ birthday candles on Monday. Lucky guy—he had to work all day and do four hours of night class, but an enthusiastic toddler did sing to him 74 times. Happy birthday Thomas!!!We are settling into life in London. In addition to the sheer number of GB (giga bites, not Great Britain) of data we use, I forget how much mental bandwidth these international moves take. Thomas’ company took care of so much, holding our hands a
We Can’t Stop Moving (opens the original)
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1.Biking through Hyde Park in March of 2023 I felt profound, undeserved, stupid nostalgia. It was a gloomy spring break, and our ride through London was longer than usual, due to the poverty mindset we had developed in college.1 The first 30-minutes on Santander rented bikes were free, and the little parked bikes were everywhere in the city - so we stopped and switched every 28.5 minutes, slowly inching our way through the drizzly city. As we hopscotched to the airport, I didn’t want to leave. A
Why I didn’t email you last week (opens the original)
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For the six of you who noticed (bless you all), the Field Trip was strikingly absent from your inbox last week. Due to a combination of being in vacation mode, visiting family in the US, camping out of service, and barfing my brains out alongside my toddler, I decided that if the Italians are going to take August off, I deserve a holiday too. When in Rome Salt Lake City!On that note, don’t come to Italy in August. August 15th is Ferragosto, an ancient Roman harvest festival (ancient like, 18 yea
Her Husband Tried To Kill Her Twice. She Changed Domestic Violence in Brazil Forever. (opens the original)
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One quiet spring night in 1983, Maria da Penha Maia Fernandes woke up to the sound of a gunshot. She soon realized, horrified, that she couldn’t move. Her husband, Marco, had shot her in the back while she slept. As Maria’s blood soaked the mattress, neighbors rushed to the home. Marco said that four intruders had entered the house, tied him up and shot Maria.1 But Maria knew the truth. She and her children had suffered years of verbal, emotional and physical abuse, with nowhere to go or any law
Trail running in the Alps: one horror after another (opens the original)
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We just spent the week support-crewing for my parents and their friends as they went refugio to refugio across the Italian Alps. We got to hang out in Cortina d’Ampezzo, eating gelato and potato chips while they hauled themselves up and down and up and up and up the Dolomites. They are incredible and we are very lucky! Now we’re staying at a hotel in Venice that has robes (a dream of mine for some time) and free breakfast. I wrote part of this essay in said robe. A dream!This is just a draft. I
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