Author: Jen
Turning away from evil
I had a dream last night. An epic, Joseph Campbell/ CG Jung type dream. The part I want to share with you involved a snake. …
I’m a zombie; really, truly, deeply
“As an immigrant, I feel both frustrated and grateful. Frustrated because I can’t communicate how and when I want to. Yet grateful for that fragile …
Meditation on Yard Sales
I have a tendency to hold on. This tendency is so strong, I’m confident I will end up a haunting ghost in someone’s house when …
Craving life
One of the major down sides of social media for me is access to second degree sadness. I just don’t need it. Sorry if that …
Don’t you remember you told me you loved me baby?
The first song I can remember singing in the shower started like this: “When I was young, I’d listen to the radio, waiting for my …
RIP Blockbuster: A pop culture haiku
(This haiku was inspired by “R.I.P. Blockbuster, You Frustratingly Magical Franchise, You” by Kevin Fallon in the Daily Beast) == RIP Blockbuster Video By Jen Maidenberg …
Genius in a bottle
I hit my head this morning. Hard. On the corner of the stackable washer/dryer in the very tight space that is my bathroom/laundry room. After …
One compulsion leads to another
I wrote recently about this superpower I possess called synesthesia. How I see letters and words in full color. And how I am going to defeat …
Carl Jung said life begins at 40
Carl Jung, man … his words are a treasure box of quotes waiting to be mined for social media memes. I was looking on Google …
Hebrew Language Tip 135: Turn your curse word into a casual remark
What You Need to Know About Me Before You Read My Tip I like to curse. I think people who curse are cooler than people …
The internet has turned me into a distracted tree killer
The internet, while seemingly a solution to the problem of the environmental impact of paper, is in fact turning me into a murderer. Of trees. …
What color is fear?
I have this thing. After half a lifetime of thinking it was either a special power possessed by only a select few, or a strange …
How to survive parenting when you’d rather be getting drunk
I love my children. But some nights — especially Thursday nights (the Israeli equivalent of Friday night) — I’d rather be out at a swanky …
Whose writing do you want to make out with?
When I was a little girl, I would swing high on the swings next to Rachel or Lisa or Debbie who would be fisting two …
The yellow bowl
I am obsessed with my child’s memory of me of this moment of this yellow bowl. This inaccessible ceramic yellow bowl perched high upon a …
I’m no Katie Couric — but I really don’t want cancer
In order to be adequately prepared for a colonoscopy, you need to get to a point at which your poop looks like pee. It’s the …
He gets like that
One of my dear friends turned 40 today. She was the first of my group of childhood friends to get her driver’s license, the downside …
10.12.13 dream haiku – R Rated Saturday
Check out Jon’s Dream Haikus. They’re fantastic!