Jenn, aka JeSais (I know)

When I was in 6th grade, we had to memorize poetry.  The only two poems I recall are The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (of which I can still recite all twelve lines of the first two stanzas) and Sea Fever by John Masefield (of which I can only recite the title and first [...]

My office has gotten to the point where I start to hyperventilate every time I walk in. And since I work from home, its sort of hard to avoid my office. My computer is here. And I telecommute.
And perhaps worse than hyperventilating is the fact that I can’t find anything. It’s frustrating. [...]

FINALLY found a home for my essay, “Goodbye Troll: a blogger’s manifesto” over at The Women’s Colony:

Make No Mistake: this kind of harassment can be as frightening and as real as being followed and watched in your neighborhood or in your home. ~Vice President Al Gore
The first comment was rather innocuous, albeit grammatically incorrect: “ACTIONS [...]

My friend Leah is a consultant for The United States of Tara. Hear what she has to say:

Spring!
Birds!
Oh the temptation.
Oh….
the laziness….
sigh.

Clearly spring has sprung and it is time to go out to my garden.
The plot under my pergola is in need of tending.
The weather has warmed.
Spanish broom is in bloom.
I want to plant holly hocks.
and vegetables.

So not only am I uncomfortable with the impermanence, now I find I must analyze,  interpret, find some meaning in the lines and dots and dashes and swoops.
Both manifestations have what could be considered an eye. Is this the opening up of the eye?  a reminder to see?  to look at myself.  Perhaps this is [...]

I’ve always wanted a Buddah Board, and I finally got one when I went to the Georgia O’Keefe Museum in Santa Fe. When I re-upped my membership I got a 20% discount at their museum shop for that day only,  and I couldn’t resist.
There seems to be something soothing about the Buddah Board; it’s  meditative [...]

It used to be fun to travel.  I remember people used to dress up to travel. (They apparently used to serve CAKE !)
NOW you have to wear shoes that slip off easily–  and no you can’t walk through security with flip flops (lord knows what you could hide in your flip flops).  And then there’s [...]