HeyJaredWhat Keeps Me Awake
WHAT KEEPS ME AWAKE is a weekly newsletter that explores life's questions that have no easy answers.
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Guest series: When Loving Your Child Means Letting Them Go (opens the original)
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Men with Rounded Corners (opens the original)
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I was speaking with a young man in a gay bar in Palm Springs, and he asked me, “Can I call you “Daddy?”I responded, “That’s a hard ‘No!’” I had kids his age who called me that when we were all younger, and it felt a little creepy. I was suspicious of where this conversation was headed.I didn’t know then that the question would eventually lead me to ask why some men are drawn to older men and why the rest of us are so eager to explain it. As a psychiatrist and a writer, I interviewed many men for
When Did Everything Become Trauma? (opens the original)
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After practicing psychiatry for over fifty years, I think I have a right to ask.My father was killed by runaway horses when I was three, my grandfather shot himself when I was six while we lived with him, and my brother became a quadriplegic as a result of a motor vehicle accident when I was nine. Those were, by any ordinary definition, traumatic experiences.Yet, I don’t feel traumatized. I do see them as tragedies that have impacted my life, but they don’t define my identity. I don’t believe I
Men Need More Time to Do Nothing (opens the original)
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“Men gossip more than women.”That’s what people said in the 1950s when I grew up in Wakefield, Nebraska. They based this judgment on their observations about the men drinking coffee in Mary’s Café.Each morning, retired farmers in their faded overalls gathered there. The banker and the undertaker often joined them. Usually, one of the ministers from the local Lutheran churches showed up to shepherd their flock. There were no new souls to be saved because every one of those men showed up in church
How Much Ginger in Grandma Olson’s Spice Cookies? (opens the original)
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I love Thanksgiving.It brings the family together, and everyone prepares their favorite family recipes. Some recipes are a family institution. God forbid that anyone would change the green bean casserole.But every family has its Hatfields and McCoys. Ours happens to be the spices in Grandma Olson’s Spice Cookies.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qtI3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.co
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