How to Become Confident (if you want to)
carriejonesbooks I don’t want to pretend to be someone I’m not. That’s a form of lying to me. I’d rather be honest and raw than polished and fake. I prefer honey…
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Don’t Be Like My Mom. You Can’t Run From Fear; You’ve Got to Snarl at It Instead
It all began with my mom freaking out about a feather. My mom has always been afraid of birds. That fear started long before I existed and was made worse…
Don’t Vomit in the Taxi and How to Tell a Good Story in Three Quick Steps
This week Carrie was in Georgia hanging out with her daughter who had just had an operation. Her daughter is fine! Anyways, on the way to the airport at 4…
New Year’s Gifts and Open Hearts
Open Hearts at Grocery Store Two years ago, on the last day of 2017 (the no-good, terrible year), I was in the grocery store line and the cashier said something…
Writing Without Labels
I was just doing a visiting residency at a great school in Vermont and a seventh grader said to his teacher, “Okay, Boomer.” Full disclosure: The teacher was thirty-six years…