When I sit down to write, I’m assaulted by thoughts. “You have nothing to say,” comes first, coupled with an irresistible urge to check my email — even if I’ve checked it 36 times since breakfast. Next I hear, “You should give up the writer dream and pursue something more suitable — like being a [...]

Seeing children as a gift, not a carefully managed asset. REVIEW OF: Start Your Family: Inspiration for Having Babies by Steve and Candice Watters (Moody 176 pp., $13.99) Eight years ago, I was chatting with a friend, also named Jenny, at a quaint café in Westchester, New York. The memory takes on a dreamlike quality, [...]

When I sit down to write I try to rein in my staccato thoughts, to organize them into something cohesive, but instead I’m assaulted by possible status updates, such as the one I just posted: “Jenny is writing about Facebook, listening to an ukulele jam session and watching chickens strut about.” Hmm, I wonder, what [...]

It’s been a year since I’ve written for Boundless, and more has changed in our life than I could have imagined. We’ve moved to the Big Island of Hawaii, where my husband pastors a small mission parish while I chase after my two kids and Meli Hoku, our Border Collie Lab mix puppy who has [...]

I picked up Real Sex just after moving into my new condo. I read it incessantly on the porch swing. I live on the first floor of a six-flat, so my brand new neighbors kept walking by on their way to the dumpster, eyeing me with curiosity as I slipped the book under my leg. [...]