HeyJaredThe Point
Black coffee, neat whiskey, trying to get up at 5am to finish my novel before my toddler wakes up.
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Go Easy On Me (opens the original)
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I haven’t had an intelligent thought in weeks. I’ve been dealing with some intense health stuff, and solo parenting while Jason is traveling for work, and working what feels like three jobs at my one day job, and and and. That’s like…enough for one person. A person should look at that load and think: perhaps the creative writing is the least of our worries right now, yeah?Nah. I haven’t been able to find the time to write, but I sure have found the time to berate myself for not writing. Is anyon
A More Powerful Metabolism (opens the original)
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The first woman I ever followed on Instagram posted mostly roses. There were a lot of close-ups of a set breakfast table, coffee steaming over a folded newspaper. I can’t for the life of me remember her name, but I remember the sparkling sheen of her dog’s fur and the cut of her husband’s jaw. (She posted a lot of close-ups.)Finding that app was like the glass pane of a window snapping into place. This, I thought, is what I have been looking for. A place to collect the beautiful pieces of life a
33 Things I Learned in the First 3 Years of Motherhood (opens the original)
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Jude turned three a few weeks ago, which is wild because I gave birth to him approximately last Wednesday. We had a party, which was mostly 1) him joyously eating donuts decorated to look like kitties and/or cars (his one birthday request) and 2) Jason and I looking at each other, going “Did you teach him that song? Where did he learn that joke?” He is becoming his own whole person at warp speed.The day-to-day of parenting changes so fast that I sometimes wonder (while knee deep in yet another l
And for the lady, perhaps a literary thriller? (opens the original)
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In case you missed it (which would make absolute sense, given you are leading your own interesting life), I am trying to write a novel. Nothing motivates ya girl like a deadline and a deliverable, so I’m “publishing” it (lol) here as I write it, to force myself to power through the first draft. It’s behind a paywall so I can eventually pull it down and query the finished product, but if you’d like a comped subscription, I will happily give you one. Just send me a DM.…with that out of the way…<a
How to Make Yourself Do Things (opens the original)
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I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but trying to accomplish big projects outside of a full-time job and raising small children is, uh…hard. Actually, set aside the job and the kid: it’s hard to do a huge thing even without them, when you’re just trying stay sane in a world where lettuce can kill you. But if you’re anything like me (I’m sorry), you keep setting unwieldy, ambitious goals for yourself, and then being surprised when the results don’t roll in automatically. Turns out manifesting on
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