HeyJaredTwo Houses. Two Painters. Two Parents.
Stories excavated from the Soho loft where I grew up and my life moved to Portugal. Stories with my late, long-divorced parents, the painters Mimi Weisbord and Lennart Anderson, illustrated with their work.
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The Cosmic True Story of My Memoir’s Latest Beta Reader (opens the original)
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Subscribe now“Baby Marie,” we called her (because that’s how she started). My grad-school friend Ruth gave birth to her while we were working toward our masters in English. Originally from Minnesota, Ruth moved to Vermont with her husband Dave after teaching high school English for ten years in Alaska. We met at an orientation at UVM; she and Dave were camping at North Beach on Lake Champlain while looking for a place to live; I was just a year or so out of college and living with my partner Kim
Eliza (Ordinarily) Ignores 9/11 (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowEliza doesn’t much touch 9/11. She doesn’t like to look at it too directly. She’s never been to the site, to the memorial. The museum. A year or so after the towers fell, Irv (her mother’s partner) pointed out the two columns of light in the night sky, the beams that once memorialized the World Trade Center. Walking back to the loft with Irv and her mother, Eliza could manage just a glance, accustomed as she was to keeping her head down. In high school, she&
Interior View (opens the original)
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Subscribe now<img alt="The door to a dollhouse in the woods thrown open to reveal a burning fireplace." class="sizing-normal" height="714.228021978022
On Belonging (at a Vet Clinic in Portugal) (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowWe are not so well behaved in the veterinarian’s waiting room. There is another little dog whose attention Marta wants, the kind on a delicate leash and harness, a harness type I initially purchased for Marta because we’d only ever adopted larger dogs and thus misjudged our new scruffy little terrier as smaller than she is. This dog is svelte and angular, a real runway type, balancing large symmetrically pointed ears—a dramatic hat—while gazing blandly down a
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