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03 Aug

Happy Birthday, Mom

  • By Jené Jackson
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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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04 Apr

Divergent? Or Derailed?

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In blurting, book news, Jené, process
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What do you do when you fall short of a goal? How do you Define it? Is it a Divergence? Or a Derailing? Are you more motivated with humongous, “unrealistic” goals? Or small steps? I am slowly figuring out
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03 Apr

Call Me! It’s California!

  • By Jené Jackson
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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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01 Feb

My Mother’s Words to Me, Through Me

  • By Jené Jackson
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The last week or two, a sort of time warp has wrapped every moment in as intense a grief and dark a depression as just after my mother and sister-in-law died a year and two months ago. It’s as though
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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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03 Dec

My Mother’s Ring

  • By Jené Jackson
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Right now, I am standing at a coffee shop, trying to write about my mom, for you, for myself, to honor her today. She died at about 2:30 a.m. on December 4th a year ago. Tomorrow, I will tell you
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27 Sep

The Somersaulted Rant of Sheisse (Thank You)

  • By Jené Jackson
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This whole thing started with “Sheisse!” (“shit” in German) And I felt justified in saying it, too. Out loud, even! For Stuff has gone Wrong all day. Broken dishes, broken wifi, broken me…ah, there’s one part of it. Only in
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13 Sep

The Dream Life

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In book news, Jené, process
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It just hit me. I’m living my dream life. Do I mean everything is perfect? Nope. That I have all I want? Nay. Then how? Well, it has to do with cooking. When people ask me what I “do,” I
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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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07 Aug

Finally, a Feminist

  • By Jené Jackson
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This is not complete. It is not well-thought-out. Not planned. Not really even edited. But it is me, now. I have more to say on this, but that will come. Love to you all (female and male). 🙂 Jene’
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