HeyJaredWords & Water
I'm a recovering journalist wild swimming my way to the writing I was meant to do. Working with fear in the water and on the page, understanding family, true tales of Old San Francisco, pondering Catholic politics, and the resistance.
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Meet Me at Our Lady of Maytag (opens the original)
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What is it about this guy that I can’t stop thinking about him? Is it that he loves animals so much? They listen to him like he’s Dr. Doolittle. Seriously, birds come and sit silently on his shoulders when he’s talking. Rabbits jump into his arms. He once tamed a wild dog, maybe a wolf or a coyote, that everyone said would have to be killed. I love how he SEES the beauty and magic inside of every creature.Is it because he’s an OG environmentalist? Saw climate change coming way before anyone else
Night Swimming (opens the original)
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Lake Tahoe, Nevada & CaliforniaI am swimming in a night cookie in the night kitchen of Lake Tahoe. The sky and the water are dark biscuits and my pale body is the warm creme center stroking away at 6,200 feet. The lake’s waters are inky and profound at 11:30 p.m. before the waning moonrise. I breathe to my right to inhale the dark night sky from between the stars and then blow bubbles into the soft liquid darkness that cushions me tonight.This is my first of three 45-minute swims I will do befor
Glute Amnesia: The menopause booty call no one tells you about (opens the original)
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When I first learned of my butt’s demise, I blamed the Compact Oxford Thesaurus, Third Edition, Revised. Compact though it was, it weighed nearly three pounds, and I had dropped it on my bare right foot in 2021. Since then, I’ve realized the best years of my buns may be behind me.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1588861472194-6883d8b5e552?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxfHxidW5zfGVufDB8fHx8MTc4NzQ0NDY3OH
Crissa Swam in The English Channel (opens the original)
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“Nothing great is easy” —Captain Matthew Webb, first human recorded to swim across the English Channel in 1875One hundred years ago on August 6, American Trudy Ederle, age 19, became the first woman and sixth human to swim the English Channel. It was her second attempt at the 21-mile stretch between England and France. She swam it in 14 hours and 34 minutes, beating the men’s record by two hours, and opened a world of possibilities for wome
They Called Me Boxcar Betty (opens the original)
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“Boxcar Betty!” my uncle Jeffy called from my grandparents’ pool while I roller-skated around it. “She’s a jammer! She’s the queeeeen of the roller derby!” he sang, echoing the Leon Russell song blasting from the speaker perched outside his room above the garage. From that day forward, I was Boxcar, or Box, to my uncles and my dad. My father never used my given name again.I was seven, and it was 1972 in northern California—the peak of the roller derby craze. The skates I’d wanted for Christmas w
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