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04 Dec

National Treasure, Nicolas Cage, and my Mom

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In grief, Jené
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Today marks six years since my mom died and the world became a little less bright. Every year, on her birth and death days, I do my best to honor her in one way or many. When I walked into
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18 Sep

Civil War of My Books

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In blurting, process
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I’m having a weird relationship with my books lately. I have many, many books. I had many books before my mom died, and then I got most of hers, and now I have even more. And they’re great books. I
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23 Jan

My First March: Why I’m Marching for Bernie Sanders Today

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My First March: Why I’m Marching for Bernie Sanders A friend said to me yesterday, “Go hiking instead of marching. Nature is eternal, politics, not so much.” And so I pondered why I was “wasting” this glorious 60-degree Colorado winter
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04 Dec

Three Years…On the Upswing

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Three years ago today, my mom died after a long battle with cancer. She was 67. Too young. Unlike the others, this anniversary has not felt muffled and dark. Instead, it’s been filled with hanging out with my children and
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11 Oct

Derailed. Castle and the Sea

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In process
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I recently took a trip. To the beach. A dear friend asked me to cat-sit for a little over two weeks at her condo right. on. the. beach. Balcony overlooking the sand. Twenty or thirty yards from the water. I
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20 Mar

Back to Life: Weeping Salaams with Hugging and Wailing Dancing Spinning Gratitude and Pie

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It was February 2012. I was about to launch the serialization of my book, The Oat Project. I got a call from family saying my mom was in the hospital. She had beaten cancer twice since 2008 but had struggled
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13 Oct

A Birthday Poem

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In blurting, Jené
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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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16 Dec

Lists and Christmas: The One Thing I Want for Christmas

  • By Jené Jackson
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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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