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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
1

July 2023

Skin to Skin
a poem (draft of poem)
Jul 24, 2023 • 
Jessica Smucker
3

March 2023

If you fly through Dallas
(you might never make it home)
Mar 22, 2023 • 
Jessica Smucker
1

February 2023

a marriage in haikus
(poem)
Feb 14, 2023 • 
Jessica Smucker
1

January 2023

January is a beautiful word
Existential reflections from the life-giving dead of winter
Jan 30, 2023 • 
Jessica Smucker
1
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
1
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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