Jenny Jackson
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367 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
Jenny Jackson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But the other themes I knew that I was writing into, I wanted to write about how Ipswich, Massachusetts, where I grew up, was the childhood home of John Updike.
So this is a place where writing is kind of baked into the community, where having a famous writer in their midst is sort of part of the town ethos.
So I knew that was going to be part of it.
I grew up in Massachusetts where, you know, the New England Patriots are actually the state religion.
And I knew that I found Tom Brady having a baby with Bridget Moynihan while he was dating Giselle, part of my like foundational understanding of marital and child having dynamics.
And so I wanted that to be part of it.
And then I wanted to think about the other big theme that I was excited about is like the final coming of age that happens when you have kids.
Because there are all these various sort of comings of age that we talk about, that we experience, that we write about.
And that can be when we leave high school for the first time.
It can be when we fall in love for the first time.
It can be when we get our first job.
It can be when we learn how to drive.
It can be the loss of a parent.
There's so many things that can be the coming of age.
For me, the most day-to-day, bone-deep, life-changing, growing-up thing I have done is have children because
you no longer live for yourself anymore.
You don't go to sleep when you want to.
You don't wake up when you want to.
You never are the person who takes the first bite at the table.
Every single thing in your life you do for someone else before you do for yourself.
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