Essays, Wellness Personal Essay | My Hip Is Not Edgy Most of all, this is about playful attention, and how it can bring us back to ourselves. And we’ll get there. First, a Jen Violi Posted on September 14, 2015
Connection The Lion, the Wild, and the Woman When I was little, one of my favorite stories was C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I enjoyed all of the Jen Violi Posted on August 3, 2015
Wellness This Is a Safe Place | For Here, Please Two weeks ago, during a massage that felt about four years overdue, I voiced a struggle to let go of tension. Lori, the Jen Violi Posted on June 8, 2015
Wellness You Don’t Get To Be The Loser | For Here, Please What would happen if I don’t have to be the failure, loser, dog? What if pleasing other people doesn’t actually meet my own Jen Violi Posted on February 23, 2015
Wellness Entertain The Present | For Here, Please I’m running late but actually walking, on my way to meet Nancy and Kim for one of our writing sanctuary days. The sun warming Jen Violi Posted on February 2, 2015
Wellness 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 Jen Violi Posted on December 1, 2014
Food & Drink Recipe | Brown Butter Bourbon Rice Krispie Treats I have found almost all recipes can be improved with the addition of one of three things: bourbon, bacon, and extra salt. I Jen Violi Posted on November 30, 2014
Wellness This Is Not About Me | For Here, Please Last week, at the end of my workday, I had these sensations: tension in my neck, shoulders, and face. Followed by this Jen Violi Posted on November 17, 2014
Wellness For Here, Please | Get Down To Get Up Mike told me he was going to put up signs around the neighborhood that said, “Missing: My Serenity.” Like the lost pet signs Jen Violi Posted on September 15, 2014