Jane Roper

2 weeks ago | janeroper.substack.com | Jane Roper

Well hello there. It’s been three weeks since my last confession post, but it feels like a lifetime. So many fresh hells and abominations since then! A veritable smorgasbord! People deported and abducted without due process, war plans shared by morons in Signal chats, stock markets clobbered, universities and law firms extorted, history expunged from websites and museums. It is hard not to feel completely overwhelmed by what is happening, and what may be ahead.

1 month ago | janeroper.substack.com | Jane Roper

Buckle up, buttercups, because I’m gonna get a little academic on your asses in this post. A little philosophical, a little political, a little evolutionary. A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll. I’ll make it quick(ish), and there’s no test at the end. I promise. It’s just that I’ve been feeling awfully unsettled of late—as I think many of us are—and I’ve been trying to get a handle on why. I mean, I know why.

1 month ago | lgumbinner.substack.com | Liz Gumbinner |Jane Roper

Yesterday, I decided it was time to use up my remaining Audible credits and cancel my monthly subscription with Amazon. Having fairly particular tastes in audiobooks (as do we all), I finally took a dive into Substack Chat to ask my subscribers for recos. Not only did I get tons of wonderful audiobook suggestions, thanks to my amazingly well-read community here and on IG and on Threads, I got a lot of questions about alternatives to Amazon’s Kindle for e-books, and Audible for audiobooks.

1 month ago | janeroper.substack.com | Jane Roper

This post is NOT POLITICAL! Hooray. I mean, Jesus, we all need a break from this shitshow, amiright? No fake executive orders, no Russian propaganda, no rainforest saving. Just life. Back in September, I wrote about my feelings of melancholy around it being the last year of our twin offspring being home with us. The last back to school photo. The last open house night at school. The last carving pumpkins for Halloween, and decorating the Christmas tree together. The last, the last, the last.

2 months ago | janeroper.substack.com | Jane Roper

Dude, I am failing SO miserably at moderating my consumption of news and social media. I was hoping things would not get quite so dire, quite so fast. But they are. I really want to get back to writing about things like middle-age spread and Tyler, my annoying ChatGPT intern, and husbandly grocery shopping exploits. Things of that nature. But I can’t. Not yet. Case in point: Remember I wrote a love letter to my fave supermarket, the Market Basket in Chelsea?