by Jenn | Jun 23, 2019 | Current Affairs, Travel
What possesses a group of people to leave about 10 pounds of trash on the beach? I can’t remember if I was taught to leave a place better than I found it or if I was instinctively born with that trait. I can’t remember if I was taught to honor and...
by Jenn | Sep 5, 2018 | Art Heals, Current Affairs, Entrepreneurial, Life
Even under the best of circumstances, the first few weeks of September are always intensely challenging for me. Maybe you can relate? I seem to be in constant conflict with myself until roughly the beginning of October. Everything I feel is felt viscerally, deep...
by Jenn | May 17, 2018 | Current Affairs, Dear Daughters, Kids, Life, Nature
Spring always catches me somewhat unawares. The long, dreary, gray winters have a way of inducing seasonal amnesia and I tend to forget how gorgeous each year’s rebirth is. Maybe it was the length of winter this year, or maybe it was the way the frigidity...
by Jenn | Mar 30, 2018 | Blog, Current Affairs, Dear Daughters, Kids, march for our lives, self esteem through art, women's march
Dear Daughters, I had plans to sit down with a cup of tea and write to you yesterday, but an unexpected vet visit with Angus followed by a pretty substantial headache derailed my plans. So, this is this week’s Things I Want My Daughters to Know Thursday post—on...
by Jenn | Feb 23, 2018 | Art Heals, Current Affairs, Effective Parenting, Kids
I am known for the empowering art-based programs I run for girls and women, but I have had boys’ programs on the brain a LOT lately. Ever since I started the Self Esteem Through Art program, I have been trying to gather enough boys to host regular boys’...
by Jenn | Feb 22, 2018 | Current Affairs, Dear Daughters, Effective Parenting, Kids, the power of words
Dear Daughters, I would love to write to you about how the world has lost its damn mind, or my thoughts on guns in schools, or how our current president is a glorified toddler, but I simply don’t have it in me right now. I am still collecting my thoughts after...
