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Jessiwrites
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Dreaming forward. Moving backward.The morning after five people were murdered at Club Q in Colorado Springs, I sunk into a booth with a childhood friend and her family at a gay-friendly brunch spot outside Miami. The news hadn’t made it to us, and the mood was light as we waited for our food. Ours was the only…
Let's make our backpacks lighterI find myself on a plane, a sleeping child tucked next to me, heading back to New York after a few days in Mississippi and Alabama. I’m trying to reflect on what the last few weeks have felt like, and it’s hard to sum up. The photo above was taken last Saturday at Thank You…
Four really great books I didn't writeJude is a book lover. Every few weeks, we walk a block down to the small library branch in our neighborhood, where he returns his cache and selects a half-dozen new ones to bring home. When we first started, I attempted to direct him to my favorite titles—children’s books by…
