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Jessica Rotondi @JessicaRotondi

Author, WHAT WE INHERIT bit.ly/InheritIndie. "Exceptional.”-Salman Rushdie. Words @history @salon @readersdigest @bostonglobe #binders

Joined February 2009
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Jessica Rotondi@JessicaRotondi
7 Apr 2023
It was surreal speaking at the @UN this week. My grandfather devoted his life to telling the world about his MIA son in Laos. Standing at the podium pregnant with my own son for @LegaciesofWar was an experience I’ll never forget bit.ly/3zEz9kb Thank you, @UNMAS.

International Mine Awareness Day 2023 - Jessica Pearce Rotondi

"What I want my boys to know is something that my family has spent ...

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“Grief is an energy that wants to move through the body, and in our loss-avoidant culture, we’re prone to fight against it.” @YourItalianHope @NYTmag nytimes.com/2024/09/17/magaz…

I Sang at Hundreds of Funerals. This Is What I Learned About Grief. (Published 2024)

Singing not only helps allow it to move through the body but it alchemizes what grief can become.

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For 36 years, my family waited for Jack to come home. There are hundreds of families still waiting. Thank you, @dodpaa, for the chance to meet with them and hear their stories on behalf of @legaciesofwar. youtu.be/Ijq1M2IBf1c?si=V7in…

Jessica Pearce Rotondi's speech at the Department of Defense POW/MIA...

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Tomorrow (Friday 6/28) at 9:30 AM EST, I will be addressing the @dodpaa on behalf of @legaciesofwar at the historic @themayflowerhoteldc. Watch the livestream at home starting at 9:30 Friday at dpaa.mil/
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I am over the moon to be attending @breadloafwriter this August. As a first-timer, all advice is welcome!
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Can animals sense a pending eclipse? Because I've had a wolf spider crawl above my head and a snake slide over my foot today and I'm wondering if a werewolf is next.
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In my latest for @History, I got to highlight ingenious ciphers created by emperors, presidents, and the Navajo Code Talkers: history.com/news/ciphers-sec…

8 Ciphers That Shaped History | HISTORY

These secret codes enabled secure communication—at least until others found ways to crack them.

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“Not until we pay grief the attention it seeks can we live again.” -the amazing @YourItalianHope in @NPR npr.org/sections/health-shot…?

Grief made me lose my balance. Here's how I learned to walk forward again

After a fall near the first anniversary of her beloved aunt's death, a writer explored why grief can make us less sure-footed. She found answers, climbing a precarious staircase in Italy.

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In 'Flores and Miss Paula' by @melissa_rivero, milennial Monica Flores and her Peruvian mother Paula balance their relationship on the edges of cultural and generation gaps in the wake of the death of their patriarch. #BookOfTheDay: on.nypl.org/3vBaCOj
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I came across the Chevalier d'Eon while researching a piece on Freemasonry and was immediately intrigued. Here's my latest for @HISTORY. history.com/news/chevalier-d…

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“I saw familiar names, Nixon & Kissinger. Names that I hadn’t seen since high school, but this time their legacies were tied to the massacre of my ancestors and war crimes—not to heroic actions for democracy, as I had been taught in school.” @legaciesofwar thedailybeast.com/henry-kiss…

Kissinger’s Cluster Bombs Are Still Killing People in Asia

A half-century after the war “ended,” people in Vietnam Laos, and Cambodia try to live their lives in a land riddled with unexploded ordinance that still kill and maim civilians.

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“His was a foreign policy enamored with the exercise of power and drained of concern for the human beings left in its wake.” @nytimes nytimes.com/2023/11/30/opini…

Opinion | Henry Kissinger, the Hypocrite (Published 2023)

He was as much a creation of the American national security state as he was its author.

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Henry Kissinger is infamous for what he did in Vietnam. His legacy in Cambodia and Laos is lesser known. I discuss it for @HISTORY. history.com/news/henry-kissi…

Henry Kissinger's Controversial Role in the Vietnam War | HISTORY

As Nixon's Secretary of State, Kissinger both escalated the war—and tried to end it.

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The Paris Catacombs are a lot newer than you think. Read how bursting basements and sinkholes from mines dating back to the Romans led to the macabre 19th century solution. history.com/news/paris-catac…
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“Building upon our longstanding altar to the dead has proven a radical, hopeful act amid gutting loss.” @YourItalianHope @HuffPost huffpost.com/entry/i-keep-my…

I Keep My Altar To The Dead Up All Year. Here’s Why It Doesn’t Make Me Sad.

“Whether or not our departed loved ones are still with us, holding them as if they are can enrich our living experience.”

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Pumpkins are dessert squashes. Don’t @ me.
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Hello from the netherworld. I look down and there is milk on everything and I look up and there is the Milky Way. When I look down again my son's onesie is both the smallest thing and already too small.
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“Writers, stop chasing social media numbers. Use the hammer when it’s the right tool—and stop caring about whether the hammer loves you back.” @JaneFriedman janefriedman.com/writers-sto…

Writers, Stop Using Social Media (Like That) | Jane Friedman

A social media following doesn’t guarantee sales. Building an audience that’s engaged with your work—your mission—requires more varied tools.

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“Parenting itself is an act of optimism, a willingness to believe that the world, your kids, and you, will be better tomorrow than you are today.” @stuffivesaid @TheCut thecut.com/2023/08/having-a-…

Having a Kid at the End of the World

In the face of bleak climate future, is it okay to want a baby in the present?

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“To feel as though your work is in conflict with your motherhood is…unbearable; there’s no question that family will win out for most of us if push comes to shove, but at what cost?” @meganmargulies @voguemagazine vogue.com/article/motherhood…

How Becoming a Mother Made Me Into a Writer

What is about this exhausting, terrifying, depression-heavy time that sparks some small ember of creativity?

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The perils of reading your toddler “Harold and the Purple Crayon.”
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