HeyJaredThe Writer's Notebook
Here you'll find stories about life as a writer and a bookseller, musings about life, travel, and family. Never miss an update about events and bookish news. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll occasionally get pissed off. Enjoy the ride.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 6
- Latest publication
- Sep 27, 2026
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- Jul 5, 2026
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The unpublished parts (opens the original)
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Crying over boys and books (opens the original)
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Heading into fall with a variety of events. Come on out and meet some authors, get some goodies, and pick up one of my books.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1350" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y7ot!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good
Loving the ride (opens the original)
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I can't believe summer is almost over. This season flew by and I feel like I barely got on my bike.My health app stats disabused me of that notion. From the first of June until today, I've cycled either indoors or outdoors 35 times. I've put 172.5 km on my bicycle, riding new-to-me trails, following my son wherever he wanted to ride, and riding, for the first time, with a friend. I rode my first 25km a couple of weeks ago and next weekend, I’ll be riding the Legacy Trail, a 52km return ride from
Am I a birder now? (opens the original)
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For weeks now, there has been a bird circling and screeching over my street. It’s not a bird I’d heard before and I really wanted to know what it was.I opened up the app I recently downloaded, MERLIN, hit record, and learned it was a Swainson’s Hawk.I moved on with my day, but two things were niggling at my brain.Why has this bird been circling for weeks and screeching at all hours of the day?*Who the hell am I?I have never been keenly interested in birds, except for corvids. I love engaging wit
Wild life (opens the original)
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So…umm…remember when I said in my last email that I was going to quit social media for the summer?I deleted all the apps from my phone. I was ready to start a social-media-free summer.And then a bobcat family moved into my backyard. My plan to stay off socials evaporated.I mean, how could I not share a mama bobcat and her kittens taking over our backyard?We spotted them from our kitchen window: three wee kittens nursing from mom on our lawn. I took some photos, and when the kittens started playi
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