Uncategorized How Can I Stand When All The Women Are Falling Down Last Sunday, while Mike and I cleaned up the breakfast dishes, I heard yelling outside. Just beyond our patio, a woman sat Jen Violi Posted on July 7, 2014
Wellness Sweatpants & Soul | Please Don’t Suck It Up Here’s a confession, with a bonus realization: I’m really good at “sucking it up,” and I don’t have to do that. So have I Jen Violi Posted on April 28, 2014
Wellness Five Minutes Of Pleasure The assignment was simple: each day for the next week, take five minutes to do something that you enjoy, something that Jen Violi Posted on March 7, 2014
Wellness For Here, Please | I Say A Little Prayer For You As a little girl, every night, tucked under a white comforter with blue flowers, flanked by a legion of stuffed animals Jen Violi Posted on December 26, 2013
Wellness 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 Jen Violi Posted on December 3, 2013
Wellness For Here, Please | Take Your Dog For A Walk, And By Your Dog I Mean You Walking with my friend Stephanie and her dog Tulip has been one of my consistent pleasures since moving to Portland four Jen Violi Posted on November 4, 2013
Wellness 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 Jen Violi Posted on October 1, 2013
Inspiration, Wellness Sweatpants & Creativity | What A Beautiful Mess You’ve Got There No, really, that’s a nice mess. I’ve never seen something so lusciously wrecked and full of compostable possibility. Okay, Jen Violi Posted on July 9, 2013