Jen Gingras Harper
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Jen Gingras Harper
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* Disabled by Covid; #pwLC since 2022
* Once (and future?) content strategist/manager, editor, competitive rower: linkedin.com/in/jennifergingras
* Still a writer: movingsideways.substack.com
* Oaklandish natiVermonter on Wabanaki land
Experience, mostly
November 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Close!

Men kill most people, especially children and pregnant women.

And then they whine about date scarcity and birth rates.

Hope that helps clear this up. 🙄💔🤬
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Oh, lord. ARE YOU OKAY.
November 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I am so, so sorry.
November 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I've never understood the Jell-O thing. Aspics should never have made it out of the 18th century.
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🫂

Everyone in my family still makes my late mom's "baked corn" "casserole," which still triggers my gag reflex.

I appreciate the cheap ingenuity, though.
November 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I'd do it, now that I'm back in New England, but my Oakland, CA-native kids don't like citrus.

It's wild, wild world that we live in. 🙂
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I'm a Xennial, apparently, but both sets of grandparents had working dairy farms. Both grandmothers cooked and baked constantly.

I think this is why my own mother wholeheartedly embraced boxed potatoes and canned veggies.
November 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I think my late MIL may have, early on, but she was a transplant from Toronto, so...🤷‍♀️
November 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Knowledge I could've done without, tbh, but it took me decades to get the hang of guac.
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Did you also grow up with a healthy fear of a grandmother's pressure cooker? I use one now...but never, ever, for pot roast.
November 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The bone broth craze will bring this back, mark my words. 🤣
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
My family still put oranges in our Christmas stockings, a tradition I had to explain repeatedly when I moved out of New England.

Californians, generally, do not put citrus in stockings. 🤣
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Christ.as
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I did not know what Nutella was until late high school, after moving to CA.
November 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I vividly recall begging my mom to buy Red Delicious apples instead of Granny Smiths or Macs.

My children wouldn't eat a Red "Delicious" with a gun to their heads. There are SO MANY better apples now!
November 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
✋️
November 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"STATES' RIGHTS!!!"

"NO, NOT LIKE THAT!"

Every goddamned time.
November 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM