HeyJaredUnicorn Hollow
Clawing adventure & beauty out of the messy & mundane. Your weekly nudge to step out of autopilot and go rummaging for unicorns. Posts, podcasts, and lots of photos of plants & pets.
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4 ball gowns, 2 vacuums, 1 antique cherub, & the endless prairie (opens the original)
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Ugly writing made me a better runner (opens the original)
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There are runners. And there are Runners.And then there is me. Someone who attempts to run. Back in the early days of the grad-school-spouse-with-little-kids-and-negative-income journey, I started “running” to keep myself healthy in a way that is mostly free, can be done almost anywhere, and while pushing a stroller.I struggled along, making slow and painful progress, even dry-heaving my way through a 10k. But even as I got better and faster, I have always hated the actual running part. I need t
From one ‘lazy’ parent to another (opens the original)
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Sippy Cup Gang tales are crafted from my hazy memories, a thousand monotonously chaotic days, and modified names & details to protect delicate teenage egos.Unicorn Hollow is 💯 reader-supported. To receive new posts on clawing creativity out of chaos & tedium and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input cla
It started and ended in a laundromat (opens the original)
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There are some seasons of life where Nick and I stare at each other and whisper, “uh…are you sure we’re not in the Truman Show?” Unicorn Hollow is 💯 reader-supported. To receive new posts on clawing beauty & creativity out of the messy & mundane and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<inpu
I desperately want to be that person (opens the original)
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“I’m a…[gulp]…writer?”I’ve been earning income largely from writing for twenty years. I still can’t say that I’m “a writer” without significant hesitation and a large dose of GI discomfort. I will call myself a grant writer and program writer and outward-facing-comms writer and newsletter writer. Heck, I’ll even call myself a freelance writer. But calling myself a just-plain-old-no-qualifying-adjective writer makes me queasy. And I was today-years old<a class="footnote-anchor
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