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For Here, Please | Bring Out Your Dead: A Simple Ritual for You

I find this a simple and brilliant combo, one we can take a cue from as we turn our awareness to ghosts, saints, or souls in

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Jen Violi

Posted on October 30, 2016

For Here, Please | I’m Not Afraid of My Power: A Period Piece

By Jen Violi Lying face-down on the table. Acupuncture needles in my lower back. Sending energy to my uterus, which, for me,

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Jen Violi

Posted on March 2, 2016

Your Heart Needs To Eat

Over lunch last week with my friend Jennifer, I found myself pounding the table and declaring, “I. need. food.” I was already

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Jen Violi

Posted on December 1, 2014

For Here, Please | Old Year Resolutions

As a writer as well as a creature of the human variety, I know that endings matter just as much as beginnings. It’s easier to

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Jen Violi

Posted on December 3, 2013

For Here, Please

Although I do enjoy many things about “to go”—my grad school days of roaming about Mid-City in New Orleans with a delicious

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Jen Violi

Posted on October 1, 2013