by Jennifer | May 21, 2020 | books
Laura Ingalls Wilder was the first writer I ever befriended. At night, our beautiful, young mothers tucked us both into bed, side by side with our older sisters. As I listened to my mother read Little House in the Big Woods, Laura would listen to her pa on his fiddle....
by Jennifer | Jan 19, 2016 | 31 days of creativity, a mom's life, books
A couple of weeks ago I was captivated by this passage in Rules of Civility (set in 1930s New York City): “Anyone who has ridden the subway twice a day to earn their bread knows how it goes: When you board, you exhibit the same persona you use with your...
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 | Dec 5, 2010 | a mom's life, books, education
I used to read poetry curled up in a comfy chair, sipping tea, just Walt Whitman and me. Now I read it in the dining room on my laptop, while Ken fixes dinner and the boys watch football and sound barbaric yawps and Geneva clomps around in my shoes and drops her bread...
