HeyJaredThe Key of G
Stories from my beautifully strange and weirdly robust past, along with articles about the present, interspersed with life as a musician, traveler, water person, and practicing meditator. Expect tragicomedy, transformation, and what's between both.
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Waiting for The Cat in the Hat to Show Up (opens the original)
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Hello Readers,Happiest of late Septembers to you all! I promise a story per month, and I realize that this one comes just under the wire. But I never miss a deadline. The story you’ll read is fiction, but only partially so. I don’t write anything that isn’t based on what I know or what I’ve experienced myself. Truth is the greatest source of good storytelling. The main character in this story is very close to me. Although his name starts with a ‘J’, he’s a burned-out professional musician in San
I Was Born on the Thumb of a Hitchhiker’s Curse, Part 4 — Finale (opens the original)
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Hello Readers,It’s August. Leo season. Raawwrr! As a proud Leo myself, I celebrate not only my birthday on August 17th, but the entire season. I love to lionize my entire pride of lions and lionesses.So, as I raise a glass to those with shaggy manes and soft fur who like to lay about on the savannah and chase gazelles for feasting and fun, I’m posting the final installment in my factually-based fiction series. A saga based on what may be real, and some of it very much is.This last part of the st
I Was Born on the Thumb of a Hitchhiker’s Curse, Part 3 (opens the original)
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Hi Readers,After two months on Kaua’i, I’ve returned to the mainland, and I sit here in New Orleans typing to you on this sultry summer day.I promised to post this story in June, but I must admit that I disappeared on the island into a world of riding waves, being with my ‘ohana, working for my clients, and rehearsing on a baby grand piano for an upcoming New Orleans show. All of that took me away from Substack, so forgive me. But I’m making it up to you now with this fresh group of words.What y
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