" Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart walking outside your body. "

~ Elizabeth Stone

We wondered from the start which of us he would resemble. 

	
				
			


	

		
A photographic essay of little Jared-kins Duncan MacDonald *

			

					

					

						Mom and Jared, Ocean Drive, Mattapoisett, 1977
							

Our son was born in 1977 in Mattapoisett, a little seaside town on Buzzards Bay, just south of Boston.
							

Left: Le bébé, Ocean Drive (our first house), June 1977.
								
					

				

				
				

					Jared and Mom, Ocean Drive, June, 1977
						Above: After dinner nap. 
						

Right: From rug rat to yard ape.
						

Below: Jared's reaction to the ocean hasn't changed much.
					Jared and Mom, Ocean Drive, summer, 1977
				

				

					Jared and Duncan, Ocean Drive, spring 1978
				

				

				

					

						Jared and Duncan, summer, 1979
							Can two boys be more satisfied with themselves? Jared's button reads "Scotland Forever." (The photo spent a long time in Duncan's wallet, thus the scratches.) 
							
Duncan and Jared, summer, 1979.		
					

				

				

					

						He was so adorable for a little while. As everyone knows, he learned to tie his shoelaces in college.
							

Jared in 1981 at four years old, Brierpatch Lane, Mattapoisett.		
						Jared in 1981 at four years old, Brierpatch Lane, Mattapoisett
					

				

				

					

						Jared at Wellesley, ca. 1982
						
Above: Taken at Wellesley College by friend Jonathan from England, 1982.

					

					

						Jared at eleven years old with Mom at The Four Seasons, Boston, March 1988
						
Below: Along came the eighties with its ever so special hair and clothes (and fur). Jared at eleven years old with Mom at The Four Seasons, Boston, March 1988.

					

				
	
				
				

					

						When Jared was fourteen, his hair got mysteriously curly.
							

Graduation from The Longfellow School in Cambridge, 1991.		
						Graduation from middle school
					

				

				

					

						Off to the merry Cambridge Rindge and Latin prom
						
						Then came those winters (springs, summers, autumns) of his discontent.
							

Left: Off to the merry Cambridge Rindge and Latin prom, spring, 1995.
							

Below: Columbia University mugshot, fall, 1997.		
					

					

						Columbia University ID
					

				

			
					


						

					
But at last all turns out well. 
						

Left: the adult Jared-kins at a wedding, 2002. 
						

Below: The MacDonald smirk, ca. 2004.

						
Jared in Maine, ca. 2004

				
 

			
				

					

						Jared and Atara
						In 2005, Jared and Atara find each other.
							

Are they not the most beautiful couple? Some things are worth waiting for.		
					

				

				

					

						And, of course, 'tis the time when friends are getting married and having babies.
							

Right: Jared with little Jesse, son of Clara and Thai, Cambridge, 2004.		
						Jared and Jesse
					

				

					

					

						Jared
						C'est pour toi, ma cousine, Ginny:
							
toute la soudain, il à 29 ans.
							

Left: En route to April's wedding, July, 2006.		
					

				

				

* Because this is my website and I am Jared's mother, I have every right to embarrass him.


				

				

					

						This page is in memory of Jared's father, Duncan MacDonald, who died suddenly in the summer of 1979. Jared was two years old and Duncan 38.
						Duncan
					

					

						Right: Duncan at our wedding, trying but failing to be serious about cake-cutting.