This silence
written in early 2016
Jenn Mattern
AKA Breed 'Em and Weep. Progressive politics and lenses. My mom told me I look pretty when I cry so that's something
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Not psychic enough to be useful
Sometime last fall, M met up with some folks he’d worked with for a year or so in a temporary position.
You look like a brick shithouse
1 Growing up it was pretty clear that anger belonged to men.
I heart Minneapolis, still
I first lived in Minneapolis from 1993 to 1995.
How to meet Meryl Streep
A true story and Meryl tells her version on her Substack
Drag queen angels
Last night, I asked out loud for my guardian angels to look after the what-ifs for me.
Thank you so much.
I don’t know how I’d be getting by without all of your support over here at Substack, where it really feels like the OG mama blog days of the early 2000s and 2010s.
Resentment risotto
The problem for me with this particular parting of ways is that he had it simmering like a risotto for months, occasionally tossing in a fresh pinch of silent resentment, and stirring the story of our life with his therapist, but not me.
Hard things
or, should have gone to the pool party
Meet the world's dumbest gold digger
or, I ain't saying I'm a gold digger, but somebody is
My body would like a word
1. I wasn’t a perfect wife.
Talking dirty
or, nighttime pastime
Yikes, still
When things are lousy, it’s hard not to feel like there’s a countdown happening behind the scenes.