Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Dispatches from the Road

Smoke Show

“okaaaay”

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Jen Deaderick
Feb 16, 2026
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Today, I had lunch with my friend, the Rev. Hank. He reads these regularly, so he’d been joking for a few days about what I might write about him. We both thought it would be funny if I wrote that he’d said something inappropriate about my boobs. He didn’t, though, and I don’t like to lie.

He did say I was a “smokeshow,” but he was ministering to my hea…

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