Cover Photo: A pair of white hands over a silver bowl, on a black background. The hands are covered in dough and flour, with some of the mixture in between their fingers as well.
Photography by Gaelle Marcel/Unsplash

I Couldn’t Write, So I Baked Cookies Instead

Writing had become my career goal, and everything else had bent in service to it.

I could never tolerate this with writing

Could this be my job instead?

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Jess Rohan is a writer in Pennsylvania.