HeyJaredWords, Wisdom & Anecdotes
Serialized pre-production books, stories, anecdotes, articles, and perhaps even some poetry, most based on the real events of my life, work, and experiences in intelligence, education, entertainment, family, and friendships.
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Something Like an Autobiography (opens the original)
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Today, I’m introducing my long-planned series of “life lesson” essays, anecdotes, and remembrances, beginning with an apology to the shade of Akira Kurosawa for borrowing the subtitle of his 1980 autobiography, Toad Oil, Something Like an Autobiography. This title was the subject of a different essay I had planned to use as the opening for this series, but an email a few days ago prompted me to offer this first. It sets the stage, as it were, for my complete unpredictability.As a few of you know
Summer’s Eve (opens the original)
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Summer is just starting to wind down here in Arizona, with only about six weeks left before daytime temps reliably drop below 100, but it’s also the time when energy begins to build in anticipation of fine weather. Yes, those of us who don’t decamp for most of the summer to California or the woodsy mountain areas of northern Arizona manage to get by just fine in our refrigerated abodes, but lassitude nevertheless sets in sometime in June, when Gulf of Mexico humidity creeps in. The remnants of t
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