Jaime Pollard-Smith
Sometimes love can sound like "No"
I was at a music festival with a group of friends last week. The wife left to go use the restroom. When she didn’t return, her husband...
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"Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place." - Unknown
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
Feb 53 min
Under Pressure
Relax. Nothing is under control. This past week I stood in the parking lot with four friends after a yoga class. One of these friends is...
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
Jan 222 min
Window Pane
Now you get to watch her leave out the window Guess that's why they call it window pane -Eminem “You have the nicest window, you know?...
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
Oct 16, 20233 min
A Visit with Mom
Yesterday I crafted. Even typing that word makes me cringe, but it’s true. I went to Fall for Greenville and decided to visit Mom’s grave...
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
Oct 9, 20233 min
A Pervasive War
It’s like writing, uh, your own obituary. I suppose to look back at it and say, you know, I cared enough to go to these places and write,...
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
Oct 1, 20233 min
Love the Liver
You can’t tell from here, but it’s broken. He was turning a handmade, glazed tea cup in his hand. The backside was scarred with a clean...
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
Sep 13, 20212 min
City of Rocks
Patient, plodding, a green skin growing over whatever winter did to us, a return to the strange idea of continuous living despite the...
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
Aug 2, 20213 min
Radical Revisionist
Oh no no no You just gotta let that old story go You just gotta let that good river flow into your heart It's a start Trevor Hall, “The...
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
Apr 19, 20213 min
Drum Roll Please: Yes, I've Changed
“People look at you strange, say you changed. Like you worked that hard to stay the same.” Jay-Z This one time at a drum journey… If I...
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
Apr 12, 20213 min
No Bad Days
I never have a bad day. And while that statement sounds like an obnoxious brag, it’s true. You might think the pandemic, separation,...
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
Apr 5, 20214 min
Half Ass Environmentalist
“No one motorist can cause a traffic jam. But no traffic jam can exist without individual motorists. We are stuck in traffic because we...
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
Mar 29, 20212 min
Perky Pollard
Hey! Enneagram 7 here. The enthusiastic visionary. I’m supposed to be uplifting, a light bringer, an eternal optimist. Jazz Hands Jaime....
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
Mar 22, 20213 min
Delight Muscle
It didn’t take me long to learn that the discipline or practice of writing these essays occasioned a kind of delight radar. Or maybe it...
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
Mar 15, 20213 min
How I Became A Sponsored Athlete
“I really think you need to do the Open this year, Mom. It would be good for you.” My son is nothing if not persistent. For the last...
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
Mar 8, 20213 min
Sitting by the Door
Fifteen years ago I met one of my best friends, Robin, in New York City at an Irish pub. We were there with our dates who happened to be...
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
Jun 10, 20205 min
In Her Corner
In Her Corner will be a space where other voices can “come home” to share their story. It will be a soft place to land where listeners gathe
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
May 27, 20202 min
A Place of Love
This statement has become part of my mantra for the past month. It is a quick test to gauge my intentions. Spending more time in close proxi
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
May 20, 20203 min
EVERY TREE IS THE FOREST
These poetic words swirled in my mind this week. Cries and protests erupt as angry citizens come to blows over the rights of individuals, an
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
May 13, 20203 min
It Would Not Happen To My Son
It might not happen to my son, but it happened to her son.
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