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Thoughts on our children
I was driving one evening near my apartment in Red Hook, Brooklyn when I came to a stop sign. I had, just days before, found out I was pregnant with my…
Dec 31, 2023
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August 2023
Thoughts on what I've learned
When I was 27 years old I was invited to an annual convening called Authentic Leadership in Action, led by the friends and followers of Chogyam Trungpa…
Aug 31, 2023
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Jessica James
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April 2023
Thoughts on the elevator
The only words I spoke during the weeklong silent retreat I attended in March were to Wendy C., the woman who read my Akashic Records. Sitting across an…
Apr 27, 2023
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Jessica James
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November 2022
Thoughts on elections: part one
When I was 24 years old, a few months before I got married in a courthouse in Norwalk, CA, I was working my first post-grad school job as a grant writer…
Nov 1, 2022
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Jessica James
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Thoughts on elections: part one
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June 2022
Thoughts on the goddesses
I was going to write a newsletter titled “Thoughts on ‘are we ok’?” but it would have just been one word - No. And I know you’re paying good money for…
Jun 21, 2022
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Jessica James
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March 2022
Thoughts on reunions
On the night before our 20th high school reunion (delayed a year, as all things were), in the back garden of my classmate’s parent’s house, after a…
Mar 24, 2022
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Jessica James
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January 2022
Thoughts on "better"
About a month ago, in the brief interlude between Delta and Omicron, I went to the city with two of my best friends for our annual (minus 2020…
Jan 1, 2022
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Jessica James
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October 2021
Thoughts on Mr. Grits
My cat was a legend. An icon. A king. He made cat haters say, “this is the only cat I’ve ever liked.” Dog lovers would nod approvingly as he played…
Oct 6, 2021
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Jessica James
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July 2021
Thoughts on retreat
It’s a sunny warm day in early May, and I’m on the Long Island Railroad headed east, all the way east, to Montauk, where I’ve rented an Airbnb to…
Jul 7, 2021
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Jessica James
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May 2021
Thoughts on Defunding the Police
I started thinking about writing about this the day Derek Chauvin was convicted and Ma’Khia Bryant was murdered. And then I had a very hard conversation…
May 6, 2021
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Jessica James
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March 2021
Thoughts on the pace of progress
The last two weeks have been horrific and traumatic. A white terrorist killed eight people in Atlanta, six of whom were Asian women, in what was…
Mar 31, 2021
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Jessica James
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Thoughts on silence
Slow your eye roll. I am not about to tell you, bedraggled war-torn soldiers of the ‘20s, that what you need is a hot 5 to 60 minutes of meditative…
Mar 4, 2021
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Jessica James
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