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RIP, coffee. We're breaking up, but somehow I'm still functioning.
A love letter and a goodbye to coffee.
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Jenna Park
46
Summers start with a little heartbreak
Our cultural foods hold us together.
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Jenna Park
21
Stress can kill you. All the ways our body sends signals.
As we sit in the space of transitions, how do we grieve for the person we once were while accepting the person we are now?
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Jenna Park
58
A disconnected walk. April’s a trickster. Life, in fragments.
Walk with me because the flowering trees are listening..
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Jenna Park
33
Angel number 55. Welcome to irrelevance.
Or, to new beginnings if you're Pamela Anderson. On invisibility, aging, and self acceptance.
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Jenna Park
49
How songs become portals to our past
My teen and I created playlists for each other. We discovered details about our lives, one song at a time.
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Jenna Park
41
Metamorphosis and the state of wintering
I'm in my creative hibernation era.
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Jenna Park
43
As one grows up, the other grows older
One eventful week in London. Family vacations can uncover many truths.
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Jenna Park
30
I'm learning how to read books all over again
Tsundoku, the attention economy, and online culture that makes reading a competition.
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Jenna Park
62
Winter's wonder and a new year begins
How the year ended, how I'm approaching the new year, and a roundup of links.
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Jenna Park
43
Notes from an empty nest: retracing 28 years of NY memories
Permanence is an illusion, but some places feel frozen in time.
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Jenna Park
36
A reconciliation of December
A month of contrasts, the ghosts of small business past, consumerism, and making space for future Decembers.
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Jenna Park
22
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