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09 Dec

The Worst Victoria Secret’s Experience Ever: An Excerpt from The Oat Project

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In book news, excerpts, process
  • 2 comments
Note: That photo up there was taken post-tattoo, post-book, long after the moment below happened. In the following, I was just trying to do and finish the project, feeling like I sucked at everything, trying to do what I said I
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13 Oct

A Birthday Poem

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In blurting, Jené
  • 1 comment
Fundamental, by Jene’ Jackson on her birthday, today, as she drove home down Colorado Avenue after writing all day. Perhaps, pungent as the cut onion’s night after night spray in kitchen curtains pervasive as the toddler’s goo griming the minvan
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03 Aug

Happy Birthday, Mom

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In Jené, process
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Dear Mom, Happy Birthday, mamadear, on what would have been your 69th. I’m sitting here about to watch an Agatha Christie movie, whom you loved, eating beets then pecan shortbread, which you loved (as do I), end-of-week tired from
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23 May

Forest Fires, Drama Queens, and Authenticity

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In book news, process
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This is an excerpt from The Oat Project, from the rock concert chapter. It may or may not make the final version (coming this summer!!!). Enjoy…and now, back to it. It’s like World Wide Wrestling. What is that fake-fighting
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08 Apr

Exceptions: The Game of Thrones, March Madness, and I Do Not Watch Television

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In blurting, Jené, process
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I do not watch television. I do not own a tv. If I watch tv, it shall never be in the daytime. If it is in the daytime, it is only because I’m sick. These are my rules. The
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03 Apr

Call Me! It’s California!

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In Jené, process
  • 1 comment
T-Mobile thinks I’m in Mexico. Last night, as I arrived at the unexpected gift of two nights in a condo on the beach, my phone pinged. I wondered who might be texting so late and looked to find T-Mobile’s
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16 Dec

Lists and Christmas: The One Thing I Want for Christmas

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In blurting, Jené, process
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My childhood Christmas lists were a work of art. Crafted from hours with my nose in the Sears catalog, the key at the top was essential. Need Very Badly = NVB. Need = N. Want = W. Want Very Much =
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10 Dec

Death, Meaning, and a Chest Cold: Gratitude

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In Jené
  • 1 comment
I keep trying to make meaning with words on this day, but they aren’t coming out properly yet. One year ago today, my family and I buried my mom in Tennessee, on the same hill as her father and family.
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22 Aug

How Today is Like Homemade Butter

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In blurting, Jené, process
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Today feels like butter. Well, like making butter…deep, emotional, existential conversations bubbling up and coalescing from what seemed like milk-plain, catch-up chats. I’ve been getting raw milk from the amazing folks at Larga Vista Ranch for a while now, and
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20 Aug

Dress Like You’re at the Beach

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In Jené, process
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Right now, this minute, I’m sitting at my home-away-from-home coffee shop, in a tank top I got from a friend. This beautiful, blue, perfect-for-Blue-Moon-Day top has…well (am I really going to admit this in public?), has what we gals call
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