The Upper Midwest: a reflection
Essays, Family, History, IdentityJessica McCraryculture, Fargo, Making a Murderer, Michigan, pop culture, Television, upper midwest, Wisconsin
Lauren & Dave's Michigan Pixel Quilt
Art, Identity, QuiltsJessica McCrarydesign, inspiration, Michigan, Michigan history, modern quilting, motif, quilting, weddings
Finding jobs, finding meaning, in everyday work
Born on Inauguration Day: Thoughts On America
Great expectations: changing them is healthy
Reading Robert Traver: a big murder in a small town
Essays, Family, Identity, Popular Culture, Reading listJessica McCrarycrime novel, family history, fiction, inspiration, Michigan, Michigan history, reading, writing
Dispatch from the edge of recession: the in-between.
Essays, Identity, The Wide WorldJessica McCraryAtlanta, career, Generation Screwed, growth, NPR, recession, the in-between, twenty-somethings, unemployment
The Life and Times of Things
Essays, History and Memory, Identity, Popular Culture, Public HistoryJessica McCraryeconomics, Marketplace, material culture, meaning, objects and meaning, value
What language can tell us: reflections on dying words and meaning
A few commandments of happiness
On happiness, and pleasure in failure
Taryn Simon, exploring bloodlines and stories that bind us, through photos
TV Show: on urban white girls in 2012
On my year of living alone
Community. My community.
Genealogy and history: love & hate
On babies
My life is richer, simply because I asked
China, Community, Essays, History, Identity, Public History, The Wide WorldJessica McCraryadoption, Atlanta, China, family, Georgia State, grad school, hyphenated identity, identity, oral history
Being Yi Jie Xie
A day in Colmar [October 2005]
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