A couple years ago I wrote a letter to my snuffleupagus future partner about needs versus wants. Mostly to keep my heart grounded and live with intention without falling into desperation. However, in a world of casual, its easy to get discouraged from wanting more. (Don’t know about you but I could not read that…

Some of you are familiar with my story. Some are just tuning in to Jenn 3.0. To fill you in, in 4 short years I have divorced my best friend, buried a parent, completed a graduate program and half a doctorate, moved 3 times, sold and bought 3 houses and changed jobs…3 times. You can…

Places change us more than you realize. We travel to the familiar and foreign and meet people, sometimes assimilating into cultures that challenge our perception. Sometimes we breeze through, sometimes we outstay our welcome, sometimes we come back to people and places and take root. The questions that keep you up at night become bigger…

Perhaps we are just one chapter within our respective stories. We don’t know what will happen in the space and time apart and maybe everything will change. Or maybe time won’t even come close to breaking the crimson thread of connection from me to you, because time is irrelevant. I respect your journey. I wish…

It happened early in the morning on the sunny deck that used to be our favorite place to drink coffee and watch the dogs play in our acre wood. We were well into a busy year that left little time for self care, let alone couple care. We seemed to be leaving the all-things-dreamy phase…

I would like to remember my first sight of you for a lifetime I would like to remember our walks and how our words braided until our hearts touched I could feel myself falling and dig my heels in to slow the fall We talk about private things, you are brave in your openness and…

The past couple of years I’ve really put myself out there for dating. I have made some really great friends out of it but for the most part what I found was us humans are at risk for executing connection, true intimacy; let alone vulnerability and honesty. Maybe I’m overreacting. You see I’m one of…

Meloncholia isn’t necessarily a negative emotion. It allows us to find beauty in the sad and tragic where others turn blind eyes. No-one is immune to melancholy: a cloudy day, a lonely flag in the breeze, a secluded mountain trail, an empty beach, a rusty bridge – all these ordinary sights are transmuted into something…