by Jennifer | Jan 17, 2016 | 31 days of creativity, a mom's life, the girl
One thing noticeably absent from my basement life is our kids. The basement is usually their domain, but they’ve had to find other places to destroy play. For most of the week, they’re being spoiled at friends’ and cousins’ houses and basically...
by Jennifer | Jan 16, 2016 | 31 days of creativity, pain, poems
I wrote this a few days after learning that I had cancer. Now, when the gravity of life weighs too heavy on me Details seem safe. I brush my teeth with care. I even floss. I wash a dirty plate until every speck of egg is gone. My closet is almost tidy again, sweaters...
by Jennifer | Jan 16, 2016 | 31 days of creativity, a mom's life
I like being by myself. (Though a week is a bit much.) An INFP doesn’t have a To Do list. Or if she does, she lost it in a pile upstairs somewhere, so it no longer matters. I have a rich inner life. No outer life to speak of, but a rich inner life. When the kids...
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 17, 2015 | 31 days of creativity, the girl
This is an old unpublished post that I began writing back in 2011, part of a series of interviews with Gigi (with a grand total of two posts). But now Gigi can speak for herself, so any future interviews will be her actual words, probably lots of them. Geneva, now 2,...
by Jennifer | Jan 16, 2015 | 31 days of creativity
My Day 16 writing was the About Us page for our long-neglected blog… http://www.busyboys.info/about/
