Month: November 2017

I wrote this piece in 2014 on a website that no longer exists.  It was about part of a very lengthy interview I went through in 2008 or 2009 in the hopes of getting a job as a teacher’s aide in a special education classroom.

I read “I Locked My Keys in My Car” in episode 30 of Words of Jen.

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I wrote this in 2014 about something that happened in either 2008 or 2009.  This piece of writing was originally posted on a website that no longer exists.

I was going through the long process of applying for a job as a teacher’s aid in a special education class.  One requirement was that I go observe a special education class at the high school.  When it was over, I discovered that I had lost my keys.

I read “I Locked My Keys in My Car” in episode 30 of Words of Jen.

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I wrote a poem called “Dependent” on January 21, 2000.  It has never been online before.  The poem is about a bad relationship that I’d gotten out of, and my discovery that things were worse than I’d realized.  I wrote it after thinking about how many times he told me I was not good with words.

I read “Dependent” in episode 29 of Words of Jen.

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I wrote this poem on January 21, 2000.  It has never been online – until now. The poem is a bad relationship that I’d gotten out of. I was living alone, for the first time in years, thinking about all the times he told me I was not good with words.

I read “Dependent” on episode 29 of my Words of Jen podcast.

I wrote “Sixty Days” between December 29, 2014, and February 26, 2015.  Shawn and I had to wait sixty days after the judge approved our bankruptcy case, in order to allow creditors to come along and harass us for money we didn’t have.  None showed up at court.

Waiting sixty days was wearing on me.  I wrote one haiku each day, and they have become a little “snapshot” of my mental state at the time.

I read “Sixty Days” in episode 28 of Words of Jen.

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I wrote “What’s Stuck to the Ceiling Now?” back in 2003, as part of a book that I was writing about my childhood.  I quickly abandoned the project after realizing that I didn’t have very many lighthearted stories to share.  This piece is the third – and final – remnant of that writing attempt.  It is about a reoccurring problem that most families don’t have to deal with.

I read “What’s Stuck to the Ceiling Now?” in episode 27 of Words of Jen.

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I wrote this in 2003 when I was thinking about writing a book about my early childhood.  The project was abandoned after I realized that I had very few lighthearted stories to share.  This is the third – and final – part of the book I started.  In this one, I share examples of things that ended up stuck to the ceiling when I was a little kid.

I read “What’s Stuck to the Ceiling Now?” in episode 27 of my Words of Jen podcast.

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I wrote “Run Upstairs With Plates” as part of a book I was attempting to write in 2003 about my early childhood.  The project was abandoned after I realized that I didn’t have very many lighthearted stories to write.  This one takes place in the early 1980s and was the moment when I realized that my family was strange.

I read “Run Upstairs With Plates” in episode 26 of Words of Jen.

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