If you’d told me, back when I was twenty-something, that in my fifties I’d be a romance novelist who got up at 5 am to write, practiced yoga, didn’t drink whiskey, and was well along the road to veganism, I’d have laughed. And then raised a glass of Jim Beam in a toast over aContinueContinue reading “This is not who I was supposed to be.”
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This Endless Summer
I don’t remember summer ever being this long, even when I was a kid. Summers in Australia are long but we only ever had a month or so off from school over the Christmas holidays, so ‘summer’ really only lasted six weeks. Here, in the U.S., ‘summer’ as defined by the school break is usuallyContinueContinue reading “This Endless Summer”
My Best Friend with Fur
Jackson Kenard Jensen October 2003-July 2020 Two weeks before we planned to travel to Australia for a month, my husband brought home an ugly little kitten one of his colleagues had found in a box between her building and the next. He was a scrappy little thing with an abnormally large, elongated nose and skinnyContinueContinue reading “My Best Friend with Fur”
The Stories in My Neighborhood
Nearly every neighborhood I’ve lived in has had certain elements in common. There’s the house with too many cars. At least one is missing wheels and it’s up on cinderblocks. Another will be missing an engine. The one next to that will be wearing a minstrel’s motley of mismatched panels. There’s the house where the kids runContinueContinue reading “The Stories in My Neighborhood”
Kelly’s Keepers
Two years late is better than never, right? I finally have a reader group and I’m inviting you to join the fun! Kelly’s Keepers Kelly’s Keepers is a private group on Facebook, meaning while the group is visible to the public, the content is not. We can talk about anything in there. Well, almost anything.ContinueContinue reading “Kelly’s Keepers”
Kelly Jensen 