Archive - Strangest Arcs

How to Dream (part 2)

Attitude is everything.

Jan 12, 2024 •

Jessica Smucker

October 2023

10 years & counting, up or down

Reflections on marriage, and how the Barbie movie can still be great without changing anything

Oct 2, 2023 •

Jessica Smucker

August 2023

Green Balloon (part 1)

the story of a song

Aug 28, 2023 •

Jessica Smucker

How to Dream (part 1)

(sneak peak! new single-in-progress)

Aug 4, 2023 •

Jessica Smucker

July 2023

a poem (draft of poem)

Jul 24, 2023 •

Jessica Smucker

March 2023

If you fly through Dallas

(you might never make it home)

Mar 22, 2023 •

Jessica Smucker

February 2023

a marriage in haikus

Feb 14, 2023 •

Jessica Smucker

January 2023

January is a beautiful word

Existential reflections from the life-giving dead of winter

Jan 30, 2023 •

Jessica Smucker

New year, new song

new reflections on how to keep beginning as the world keeps spinning towards apocalypse

Jan 9, 2023 •

Jessica Smucker

4:28

July 2022

War of Attrition (sneak preview)

New single releases everywhere August 19; paid subscribers, listen here now!

Jul 1, 2022 •

Jessica Smucker

June 2022

The Beautiful (new song demo)

a song of mourning, hope, and complicated love for a broken nation

Jun 28, 2022 •

Jessica Smucker

Busy Making a F&%ing Difference

How so much of writing happens in the not-writing

Jun 21, 2022 •

Jessica Smucker

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