On April 8, 2017, I wrote a post on my Tumblr blog (which no longer exists) about my thoughts about the outcome of the 2016 election and what happened next. It includes my attempt to cope with it all – which didn’t work out so well.
I read “Why I Deleted All of My Political Posts” in episode 20 of Words of Jen.
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I wrote this piece on April 8, 2017, on a Tumblr blog that no longer exists. It is a summary, of sorts, of my emotions through the twists and turns of the 2016 election cycle. I used to write about politics. But then, something happened that made me want to delete all my political posts.
I read “Why I Deleted All of My Political Posts” on episode 20 of Words of Jen.
NOTE: The original post did not contain any links. When I moved this piece of writing here, I added links from credible news websites that provide some additional background and context to what I wrote.
I wrote this poem on April 9, 2017, on a Tumblr blog that no longer exists. It is about a disturbing pattern I noticed on Twitter during the 2016 election. Some people were continuing to use Twitter in the friendly way we always had. Other people, however…. were not.
I read Two Paths in episode 19 of Word of Jen.
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I wrote this poem on April 9, 2017, on a Tumblr blog that no longer exists. It was in response to a pattern I noticed on Twitter during the 2016 election. Some people were using Twitter the way it should be – while others were filling their Twitter accounts with hate.
I read “Two Paths” in episode 19 of Words of Jen.
In this episode, I read a piece of writing that I wrote on May 11, 2017. It is about something that happened when I was 12-years-old, which would have been sometime in the mid-1980s.
I read “My First Alcoholic Drink” in episode 18 of Words of Jen.
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I wrote this on May 11, 2017, but it is about something that happened decades before that. This piece of writing is about something that happened at a party with my relatives when I was 12 years old, which would put it in the mid-1980s.
I read “My First Alcoholic Drink” in episode 18 of my Words of Jen podcast.
In this episode, I read a poem that I wrote on February 23, 2017, (on a Tumblr account that no longer exists). The poem was my way of responding to the endless stream of awful news about what Trump – and the people he nominated or selected – had been doing.
I read “We Are In The Wrong Timeline” in episode 17 of Words of Jen.
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I wrote this poem on February 23, 2017 (on a Tumblr blog that no longer exists). It was written in response to the endless stream of awful news about what Trump – and the people he selected – were doing.
I read “We Are In the Wrong Timeline” in episode 17 of my Words of Jen podcast.
Years later, I read this poem again on Episode 066 of Words of Jen. It was unexpectedly relevant because were were still dealing with the Trump Administration and also living through the COVID-19 pandemic.
This episode features a piece of writing that I wrote in late December of 2016 – but that is about something that happened in the 1990s. It includes discussion about my period.
If that’s not something you are comfortable hearing about, I recommend you opt-out of this episode and come back for the next one.
I read “The One In Which Write About My Period” in episode 16 of Words of Jen.
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I wrote this in late December of 2016. The events in this piece of writing took place back in mid-1990s. At the time, I was in a long-term, miserable, relationship that wasn’t working. One could call it a “college marriage“.
I read “The One In Which I Write About My Period” in episode 16 of my Words of Jen podcast.
