A Letter to Your Future Self

by JAC | Dec 30, 2020 | Publications, Transformation, Writing

So proud to share this one. My beautiful daughter wrote an amazing letter, and they published it in The NY Times today. What would you write to your future self so you don’t forget the lessons you’ve learned in this liminal space? Here’s what she had...

I have doubts.

by JAC | Dec 29, 2020 | Publications, Simplicity

Early in the pandemic I started to regret my brief foray into minimalism slightly. I still have a small space and like order, but I can understand now why my grandparents and my parents saved so much. I wrote about it and it’s up on The Washington Post’s,...

List-making in a Dark Time

by JAC | May 21, 2020 | Acts of Hope, Linked Publication, Love and Loss, Publications, Uncategorized, Writing

For any other list-makers out there, I published this on HerStories yesterday.””In this time of quarantine, my lists are offering me space outside of the walls of my home, a way of making sense of chaos, a self-imposed structure on structure-less days, and...

Only parent, only child: An ode to our small family [Washington Post]

by JAC | Jan 23, 2020 | Linked Publication, Love and Loss, Publications

I have a piece in the Washington Post today about my experience being in a small family, a family of two. Thank you, as always, for reading. You can find the piece...

How the Loss of the Landline is Changing Family Life [The Atlantic ]

by JAC | Jan 22, 2020 | Publications

It’s been a long time. The summer and fall were difficult seasons here, and I’m having this site redesigned, so stay tuned for that. I did want to link to my piece published in The Atlantic in December. I wrote about the fact that our children won’t...

Grief Looks a Lot Like ‘Crazy’ in ‘Dead to Me’ [Modern Loss]

by JAC | May 30, 2019 | Film, Linked Publication, Love and Loss, Publications

IMAGE: SAEED ADYANI / NETFLIX I watched the trailer of “Dead to Me” a few weeks ago while I was scrolling on Netflix as a reward for my morning yoga class. I debated watching it at first because usually loss isn’t portrayed very acurately, but I...