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A few months after Jude turned three, he came in from the playground, flopped down next to me on the couch, and said: “I’m dead.” Frances found the word…
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December 2022

The beauty of community is that we guide each other through the dark moments; we become the internal light that makes periods of darkness bearable. It’s…
Jessi Hempel

November 2022

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…
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I 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…
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September 2022

Jude 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…
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August 2022

A good friend is in the midst of an incredible professional success. She directed Into the Woods, a revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s…
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Everything is awful, and I’m aware of every awful thing all the time. There’s the pandemic, and climate change. The threat of social unrest, and the…
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July 2022

Rethinking work, life and meaning for the contemporary age
Jessi Hempel
Rethinking work, life and meaning for the contemporary age
Jessi Hempel

May 2022

Rethinking work, life and meaning for the contemporary age
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March 2021

Rethinking work, life, and meaning in a digital age
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December 2020

Rethinking work, life, and meaning in a digital age
Jessi Hempel
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