Author: Jen
Working with Dreams for Healing
In my recent “audio chat” on Patreon, I spoke a little about why I believe we are missing an opportunity for healing when we don’t ...
Are Some Dreams Psychic?
It took me a long time to believe in my psychic dreams, in my ability to dream of events that eventually came true. In fact, ...
What’s the Weirdest Thing That’s Happened to You?
I have a vague memory of sitting at the kitchen table in my childhood home and saying to my mom, “I’m weird.” “You’re not weird,” ...
Seeking Guidance With Your Spiritual Awakening?
Is it necessary to move through a spiritual awakening alone? I’m not sure. Maybe for some or parts of it. But I know that on ...
Welcome to My New Web Site! (2021)
If you’ve found yourself here, I imagine you may be curious; curious to know more about my writing or my latest work, curious to know ...
Seven New Poems (2021)
In 2020 and 2021, writing essays and nonfiction did not come easy. What seemed to want to come out of me was poetry. These poems ...
New Lyric Essay on Love and Time (2021)
In a year in which creating felt hard, I feel proud and a little bit still-in-love with this flash essay I wrote in May 2021. ...
Into the Dream Is Now on Patreon (2021)
I’ve been researching precognitive (aka “psychic”) dreams for more than a decade, after my dreams starting showing up as real-life waking events and images. In ...
Interview with Author Rivka Galchen (2016)
I so enjoyed Little Labors, the latest book out from award-winning novelist Rivka Galchen. A stunning, intimate, but thoughtful hybrid work, Little Labors is definitely a ...
Interview with Author Curtis Sittenfeld (2016)
Up in The Times of Israel today is an interview I conducted with Curtis Sittenfeld, the New York Times bestselling author of “Prep” and “American Wife.” Sittenfeld has ...
New on District Lit (2015)
My latest column is up on District Lit today. It’s not about real estate, nor about ghosts, but about the lies I tell myself about ...
New Poem Up at Silver Birch Press
I’m excited to share with you my new prose poem, “Repeat,” is up at Silver Birch Press, a selection for their When I Hear That ...
Book Review: The Ambassador
For all my love of time travel and exploration of whether or not we could or should alter the past, I’m surprised I don’t read more fiction in ...
Almost Book Review: Mary Ruefle’s Madness, Rack, and Honey
It’s an almost book review for two reasons: 1. I haven’t finished the book. Of course, I am certain many reviewers — ones who get paid ...
Book Review: Dear Luke, We Need to Talk
Book Details Title: Dear Luke, We Need to Talk, Darth: And Other Pop Culture Correspondences Author: John Moe Publisher: Three Rivers Press Review It was ...
I wrote a letter to a friend
I wrote a letter to a friend today and inside that letter — which was not a letter but something like a letter sent by ...
Gem in the Galilee
My dad and my husband have this routine: My dad, an archaeology enthusiast, always keeps his eyes peeled for the undiscovered artifact when he visits Israel. My ...
Their stubborness, their bodies
Yesterday wasn’t the first day I was reminded that we accidentally on purpose train our daughters to give up rights to their bodies. Even though ...