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Jay Armstrong

Jay Armstrong

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Dec 19, 2021

52 Decisions to make in 2022

Now that Bedtime Stories for the Living has been published, I find myself in a weird place. It’s what I imagine watching your youngest…

52 Decisions to make in 2022

Jay Armstrong

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Dec 13, 2021

Publication Day

(It was not as sexy as I thought it would be.)

Publication Day

Jay Armstrong

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Oct 18, 2021

Writing to Raise the Dead

In preparation for Halloween, my neighbor transformed his front yard into a graveyard.

Writing to Raise the Dead

Jay Armstrong

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Nov 11, 2020

Questions from Election Night

Dad, if Donald Trump loses does he have to move out of his house?

Questions from Election Night

Jay Armstrong

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Jun 6, 2020

Selling my Daughter America

To write this one, I slid on my dad pants–which are high-waisted, loose-in-the-thighs, cuffed khakis. In case you needed a visual to…

Selling my Daughter America

Jay Armstrong

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Apr 28, 2020

How do we create hope? Here’s a way…

“Nebraska” is arguably Bruce Springsteen’s bleakest albums. Striped-down, acoustic, and set in a hard world littered with morally reckless…

How do we create hope? Here’s a way…

Jay Armstrong

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Apr 1, 2020

To my students, the Class of 2020 (or how to pass my English class)

The first book we read together was Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

To my students, the Class of 2020 (or how to pass my English class)

Jay Armstrong

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Feb 16, 2020

Forgiving Your Family and Letting Go of Childhood Pain

This is February’s installment of the Forgiveness Journey, an attempt to make forgiveness a regular practice.

Forgiving Your Family and Letting Go of Childhood Pain

Jay Armstrong

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Jan 30, 2020

How to get out of a funk

Earlier in the week I was in a funk.

How to get out of a funk

Jay Armstrong

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Jan 20, 2020

It’s like Hand and Stone for the soul (or your monthly reminder to forgive yourself)

If you’ve been reading lately you know I’ve dedicated 2020, a year that began with a vengeance, to self-forgiveness.

It’s like Hand and Stone for the soul (or your monthly reminder to forgive yourself)

Jay Armstrong

Jay Armstrong

Jay Armstrong is a writer and a former award-winning high school English teacher. Find more at writeonfighton.org.

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