HeyJaredThe Shape of Love
Loved three times and learned that love takes many shapes. Weekly vignettes on marriage, memory, and what remains after endings. I'm a former journalist writing my memoir, "That's What You Say Now." For readers seeking wisdom on love's complexity.
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I planned to visit Brian... (opens the original)
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Fifteen years ago on a cruise ship in the Caribbean, grieving the loss of my husband, John, alone, sitting in my assigned seat at a big, round dinner table with my like-minded companions who had joined the cruise sponsored by The Nation magazine, I met Brian.Brian was bald and Australian and witty and reassuring (“You will feel better before too long”) and a Democrat and gay. His partner, Michael, a native of Algeria, had elected to stay at home; his Fort Lauderdale condo neighbor was on the sam
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Today I will write a poemOr at least a piece with sentences, not paragraphs.I am thinking about Svetlana Alexievich,who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015 at age 67.I have never read her writings or even heard of her.She was born in western Ukraine and lives in Berlin.She writes by hand.She has something called trigeminal neuralgia.It could be from Chernobyl, where she went to interview people,or, as she says to her interviewer for The Paris Review (Fall 2026), Elena Kostyuchenko:“…maybe
The Pino Grigio, please... (opens the original)
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For more time than is probably sensible in the past few days I have been pondering the following question:“Why Galliano?”If there is any wisdom attached to age (mostly there isn’t, in my ancient, personal view) — but if there is — I would say it has to do with the penchant for asking a lot of questions and not feeling at all arrogant about what you know or don’t know. If, on some days, you feel as though you know less and less — is this really how the world is? — and you debate between the oatme
Praying sort of... (opens the original)
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Bocconi.Cardozo.UCL.Guttman.I did not know three of these names until this year. I did not know they were all fine institutions of higher learning. Bocconi University in Milan. Cardozo Law School and Guttman Community College in Manhattan. I found out about UCL - University College London in London, England — when my granddaughter enrolled there four years ago.Now I see them all — great schools around the world — as the glorious future. The three other grandchildren are now also enrolled. They a
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That famous description by Marcel Proust about the madeleine he dipped into his tea and then, at that very moment, as he put the softened shell-shaped cookie into his mouth, had a remarkable and remarkably profound memory of his childhood — that famous description is surprisingly enduring in the world of literary happenings, I think, because it carries such a huge kind of drama.I tasted a cookie! I tasted my past! I tasted my life! I tasted who I am!Every memoirist searches for those moments in
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