by Jennifer | Jan 15, 2016 | 31 days of creativity, a mom's life, books
…or How I Fell off the Wagon. A hermit, of the basement-dwelling sort that I am, rather than the kind fighting daily for survival, faces a question each morning: what shall I do with this long, empty day stretching in front of me? Because my days of freedom are...
by Jennifer | Jan 14, 2016 | a mom's life, hospital
A little background: In November 2015, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Mine was treated as most thyroid cancer is, with surgery, followed by radioactive iodine therapy. ❖ ❖ ❖ Yesterday I drove to the hospital, entered a special lot I’ve never parked in...
by Jennifer | Jun 1, 2015 | poems
“Chink!” She tossed the word with careless scorn, darted back into her first-grade classroom. And I, just passing in the hallway, caught it up and held it, turning it over in my hands. Like night slowly creeping in the knowledge that it was thrown with...
by Jennifer | May 22, 2015 | a mom's life, marriage
I have a Briggs & Riley suitcase I bought before Ken and I met, 20 years ago. It’s a very good suitcase. At the time, it was the most expensive thing I owned, next to my 1990 Honda Civic. I traveled for work, and it took a beating. We’ve taken it on...
by Jennifer | Mar 15, 2015 | a mom's life, poems
If I had only known Three days was nothing Four weeks now notched on my belt of motherhood Four weeks with a sick child, one at a time, usually on Thursdays Falling not like dominoes but like patient drops from the tip of a stalactite J.D. Fitzgerald’s mother...
