Author Archives: Jen

My mom is working on a project which involves “rehabilitating” 11.5″ fashion dolls for my niece. One of the aforementioned dolls came home the other day with what appears to be a canine-digital mutilation. They considered hiding the considerable defect … Continue reading →

I’m sitting in a laundromat for the first time in close to 20 years.  My very first appliance (not counting my dorm fridge) was a washing machine that Smith (my grad school roommate) and I purchased my first year of … Continue reading →

Okay — if you’re a girl, somewhere between 10 and 50, and you don’t already have a diva cup, then you need to get one forthwith. I thought I had lost mine at a conference in OH. All sorts of … Continue reading →

This is my endodontist. And this is why my endodontist is badder than your endodontist. (And yes, that’s a lion).

What I’m reading right now: For the Adolescent Literature Seminar: For the Mom’s Book Group (which is weird, it being such an adolescent lit book . . .): Picked up just for kicks: (Okay, this is a weird book to … Continue reading →

I use 1-800-GOOG-411 all the time . . . and, in general, I really like it. One coda, though. I tend to speak like a computer to it, because it has difficulty understanding me. GOOG-411: What City and State? Jen: … Continue reading →

Last year I started an Adolescent Literature Seminar. My main reason was to give Farmerteen a “class” of kids to discuss literature with . . . so I roped in a bunch of homeschoolers and former homeschoolers to give it … Continue reading →