Jaime Pollard-Smith
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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"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
- Oct 9
- 3 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
- 3 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, 2021
- 2 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, 2021
- 3 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, 2021
- 3 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, 2021
- 3 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, 2021
- 4 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, 2021
- 2 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, 2021
- 3 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, 2021
- 3 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, 2021
- 3 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, 2020
- 5 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, 2020
- 2 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, 2020
- 3 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, 2020
- 3 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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Jaime Pollard-Smith
- May 6, 2020
- 11 min
J'aime La Vie: Kathy Izard
Introduction I first learned about this month’s guest several years ago through her book, The Hundred Story Home. A good friend chose...
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
- Apr 29, 2020
- 3 min
Time Traveler
Traveling backwards lets me control the narrative— my take on the storyline. This very control is what I am practicing releasing on a daily
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Jaime Pollard-Smith
- Apr 22, 2020
- 4 min
The Shimmer Of Didion's Light
If reading is in my inhale and writing is my exhale, I think I have been holding my breath for the past month.
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