HeyJaredTwo Pockets
Pocket 1: For my sake the world was created. Pocket 2: I am earth & ashes.
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Gloria Steinem, the Big Sister I Never Met (opens the original)
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This one is hitting me hard.We’ve had some notable celebrity deaths recently—Dolly Parton, Wendell Berry, Tim Curry—but Gloria Steinem tops all of them by far in my heart. She was the face of feminism for me, not just in being an early, visible spokeswoman for what was then called “women’s lib” but in her persistence. She didn’t write a book or two and then disappear to bucolic Mendocino or the Hudson Valley. She remained politically active, nurtured younger women activists, promoted women of co
Diasporism and Ashkenormativity (opens the original)
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You know how Merriam-Webster and other dictionary publishers come up with a Word of the Year? How they select a word to represent the zeitgeist—like “blog” in 2004, “truthiness” in 2006, “pandemic“ (duh) in 2020, “polarization” in 2024, and “slop” in 2025?I’ve got my own two Ilana’s-Words-of-the-Year for 2026. They’re not completely new to the world in 2026, nor even new to me, but as recently as two years ago I’d never heard of them and I’
Memories and Memoir (opens the original)
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I’ve been at loose ends with writing this summer. My historical novel is out on submission to publishers, so there’s nothing to do on that except wait and wait. Meanwhile I haven’t yet figured out the focus of my Next Novel. I hate not being in the middle of a writing project. So I decided to mess around with writing about my life.Writing memoir. Or, less coherently, writing memories.This is something I’ve never tried before. Why do it? I’m no celebrity and have no seat-gripping story of childho
Tisha b' Av in 2026 (opens the original)
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Tomorrow – Thursday, July 23 – is the date on which Tishah b’ Av falls this year.The most somber holiday in the Jewish calendar, it mourns the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in 587 BCE and 70 CE respectively, although over the centuries it also came to encompass the entire panoply of disasters that befell Jews.Traditionally Jews fasted on Tisha b’ Av like on Yom Kippur—refraining from work, food, washing, sex, and acts of personal luxury like wearing leather shoes. They attende
Six Beginnings (opens the original)
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Where to begin? That’s one of the big questions for novelists. Should your book open in the middle of the story or with a long-ago incident that set everything in motion? with description of a key place? a key character? with in-your-face conflict or with hints of subterranean tension? On Friday, August 7, I’ll take part in an hour-long online reading with five other writers of fantasy and science fiction from two continents, sponsored by <a href="https://strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com"
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