HeyJaredYou're Here to Hold You
Dispatches from the intersection of love and grief - otherwise known as Midlife. Music, food, pop culture, dead parents, aging bodies, and a great love story.
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Shop still open? (opens the original)
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I’m back to watching SVU. I tried to stop, I don’t want the stories piling up in my subconscious. But still, I know some seasons inside and out - it’s a series that’s played in the background for years.I used to tell myself I watched because it was a show my dad and I shared. And with it on, I was back on the couch at his house. Him beside me. Or close by, due to emerge any moment to top off his drink and say once more, Pretty when Mariska was on the screen.<p class="cta-cap
Two quick memories (opens the original)
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Content warning: Sexual assaultIf you’ve opened this hoping for something insightful, it’s not here.Instead, I have two memories: One just from yesterday and one from college, a very long time ago.Yesterday, at a fundraising event, the ask was framed as This is the time to invest in girls and women. We’re on the chopping block again.And then from college, recounted in a mess of an unpublished braided essay that I wrote about when my First Love hurt me:The second telling of my story would have be
Scrambled eggs, my Poppy, and me (opens the original)
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Hi,Happy Equinox! Here we are at the start of Fall. Thanks for reading You're Here to Hold You! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.I needed a break after the intensi
Seeking freedom from other people’s stories (opens the original)
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I started writing this piece two weeks ago, the afternoon I arrived in Brooklyn. It was going to be how different my body feels being there, being on vacation, being in constant motion. Adding in something honoring Dolly Parton and her deftness at using fashion as a narrative and weapon and the systems that helped to create her once-in-a-lifetime talent (as inspired by Tressie McMillan Cottom’s reel). And, somewhere in there, a quick homage to Tim Curry and how he as Frank-N-Furter - possibly ev
I don’t know how to break up with work (opens the original)
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My neighbors put an old recliner at the end of their driveway over a week ago. Taped to it is a sign assuring passersby that it works - they just don’t want it anymore.At the end of our street is a dog park. Daily, there’s foot and car traffic, people going in one direction and back again.Thanks for reading You're Here to Hold You! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class
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