Hi, My Name is Jen. And I Like Cold, A Lot.

Wed. 03.03.21 – For a year now, the world has been on fire and people are dying. The self same world has been getting hotter and hotter for years now, and honestly folks, said world has been on fire and rather shit for some…

A Verbal Eats Shoots Leaves Problem

In her 2003 book, “Eats, Shoots & Leaves“, Lynn Truss points out the problems of a lack of punctuation or too much punctuation in terms of meaning and how the reader parses the words. If one is a panda bear: one eats shoots &…

The Interiority of 2020

Mon. 08.03.20 – Hello, August. Funny seeing you here in this weird year. I feel that I am caught in a spiral of interiority. Not the downward, sinking spiral of lethargic depression, but another type of spiral – one that takes me increasingly inward…

Happy Solstice, Milky Way Season, Plus a Photo of NGC 6231 from June 2019

06.21.20 – Whether you are in the northern longest day or the southern longest night, I hope you enjoy your extra sunlight or starlight this weekend. If you are in a space with a good night sky, get out and enjoy the Milky Way…

Thursday the 18th of June in the Year of Folded, Mashed, Stretched Time

Thurs. 06.18.20 – Yes, I persist in writing my time stamps as MM.DD.YY. Speaking of time, once again, it seems as if years have passed since March and yet it was just last week or two ago. My intense Covid dreams have faded to…