Jessica Best @jessicawbest
Writer | @breadloafwriter '22 | @Yale alumna | single mom of three boys | leap-of-faith Christian | 📚 🍵 🧘🏻♀️ 🐾 👩🏻💻 💃🏻 🍦 🛌 🎶 🏔 jessicabest.com Hunt Valley, Maryland Joined January 2022-
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When a customer service rep ends an unsatisfactory call, “Is there anything else I can assist you with?” I try not to be sarcastic, but I want to say, “No, I don’t have any other issues you won’t be able to fix. I entrusted you with my big problem, and how did that work out?"
"When there's a Will, there's a Willard." Wise words from my 3rd grader.
A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of sharing my Leap of Faith story at the Stoop. Here it is. jessicabest.com/work
I’m missing last year when I was in Vermont at this time, making so many new friends at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
I had a dream last night that my eight-year-old got pulled over by the police because he was reading the Odyssey while driving.
“Forever” would be a less ambiguous adverb.
I had an existential moment when I saw this box of 300 envelopes. They are #6 envelopes, not the typical #10, so I have only used a few so far even though I’ve had them for some years. These envelopes will outlive me, I thought. Life is not long enough for 300 #6 envelopes.
“i before e except after c” … and not on Christmas Day when questions arise about reindeer and sleighs.
Microsoft, why make the icons for your most popular apps look so confusingly similar?
Christmas creep! With the purchase of an avocado toast ornament, I've become part of the problem.
How can I be upset that he's up past his bedtime when he's sending me funny dog GIFs?
Irritated by his older brother, my youngest wrote him a note, “you are dum.” The misspelling amused the dum one to no end. 😆
This month, Merriam Webster added “yeet” and “sus” to the dictionary. I think that makes them less cool. Maybe I’ll tell the boys so I won’t have to hear them as much. merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/…
So, I’ve been thinking it over. Rather than show them in disguise like they’re whistleblowers on 20/20, I can just show their little tushies! This photo is one of my favorites from nearly 5 years ago. It shows us on a journey, facing life and the horizon—together.
When the boys learned there is a photo of our family online… horror! They do not want to have their faces on the internet. I respect that. But I wish I would’ve known before I got back on social media after a 7-year break. Their cute faces were going to be my material!
Here in Maryland, thoughts of Noah, leprechauns, and Judy Garland
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Here they come! IF only in theaters May 17!!!
As an adult, this is the kind of stuff that excites me:
Publishing with the Baltimore Review has been one of my best lit mag experiences to date. Do consider submitting!
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