While my most current posts appear on the home page, and you can scroll through all of them under BLOG, this is a text-based list included as a convenience probably more for me than you. Enjoy!
- The Whale Show
- One of the Good Guys
- Coffee Meditation
- Pay No Mind
- Great Cape Escape – Day 7
- Dream Encounter 050724
- Great Cape Escape – Day 6
- Haunting
- Great Cape Escape – Day 5
- 5 a.m. Waning Crescent Moon
- Great Cape Escape – Day 4
- Great Cape Escape – Day 3
- Great Cape Escape – Day 2
- Great Cape Escape – Day 1
- 30 – gathering moon stones
- 29 – Car Trouble
- 28 – Delusions of Grandeur
- 27 – At Province Lands
- 26 – Whale Watching
- 25 – Sleeping in Truro
- 24 – Helen
- 23 – Monsters Among Us
- 22 – Spirit Animal: Frog
- 21 – Soundtrack
- 20 – Considering the New Red Car
- 19 – The Story I Didn’t Write
- 18 – Some Days I Hate to Turn the Page
- 17 – Melancholy Musing
- 16 – This Morning, 6 a.m.
- 15 – Exit Strategy
- 14 – Hidden Superpower
- 13 – Poetry
- 12 – Cat Care Haiku
- 11 – Periphery (or sandwiched in between here and what comes next)
- 10 – Tribute
- 9 – Old(ish) Woman Walking
- 8 – Wit’s End
- 7 – Kismet
- 6 – String Theory
- 5 – If someone walked into your heart what would they see?
- 4 – Witching Hour
- 3 – Rain: A Haiku
- 2 – To Be or Not to Be a Poet
- 1 – April arrives in flames
- Spring Observation
- 14 Fun Facts about Random Acts of Writing
- Yoga on the Screen Porch at 4
- The Poet at Midnight
- So Late in the Day: A Response Poem
- NOW ON SALE! You Mean a Woman Can Open It?
- Poetry Assignment by the Docks
- Spacetime
- I am what I think. We are what we share.
- Trapped (Dream 012524)
- Gobsmacked at the Gallery
- They Called it a Microburst, But I Know Better
- Happy New Year!
- Just What the Doctor Ordered
- A Year in Books (2023)
- What Would Jesus Do: A 100-Word Rant
- Sunday Drive
- Inroads
- And the Beat Goes On
- Trespass
- Dream Collaboration
- What is Ambiguous Grief?
- The Bear Prince
- She Sees It is All Connected
- The Mimics of a Lifetime
- Eating Liangfen in the Love & Relationships Bagua
- in what we have done
- Punctuated Equilibrium
- May all beings…
- Namaste
- Library Visit: A Dream
- Zeitgeist
- Altered
- Interstate Epitaph
- A Mouse Tale
- MANIFEST (zine): Stressed Spelled Backwards Is DESSERTS
- How I’ll Glow Up
- Do Unto Others
- Remembering Mary Anne
- Foodie Friday: Crispy Lime Cabbage & Turmeric White Bean Mash
- Some Days I Just Want the Jiffy Corn Muffin
- Poet on a Rock
- Meeting a Mouse: A 100-Word Story
- Preparing for Aestivation
- Introvert at the Event
- Sunday’s Inspiration
- The Shy Ones’ Hour
- May’s Full Moon
- 30 – To My Muse
- 29 – Just Once in a Very Blue Moon
- 28 – New Eden Revealed
- 27 – Resistance is Futile
- 26 – When Will They Ever Learn
- 25 – I Live in a House of Cats
- 24 – Incognito
- 23 – The Fine Print: A Dream
- 22 – Rebuttal
- 21 – The things I didn’t say…
- 20 – the gods are weeping
- 19 – LOVE is My Logo
- 18 – What if La La La Is My Superpower?
- 17 – Treeline
- 16 – Double-Dutch
- 15 – Long Weekend
- 14 – The Face of Waiting
- 13 – 50-Word Classified Ad: Rose Colored Glasses
- 12 – In which the poet considers the half-life of love by way of nuclear reaction
- 11 – Places of Waiting
- 10 – Grieving Place, II
- 9 – Charlatan Prophet Preaches
- 8 – Trauma Theory
- 7 – Tribute: Sargent’s Weeping Hemlock
- 6 – What Forgiveness is Due
- 5 – Grieving Place, 1
- 4- Whispers & Jingles
- 3 – Reformation
- 2 – No Poem Today
- 1 – April Comes This Morning
- Happy National Poetry Month!
- The Moon is Dying
- When the Mania Collapses in On Itself Again
- Wonder Women
- Random Acts of Writing Turns 13!
- Under His Spell (or I am Sure He Was a Sorcerer)
- Friday Photo 03.03.23
- Enjoy the Ride!
- Friday Photo 02.24.23
- Rockport
- Friday Photo 02.17.23
- Friday Photo 02.10.23
- Get Your Just Desserts
- Narrative Arc
- Friday Photo 02.03.23
- Mini (zine): There’s No Such Thing as the Poop Fairy
- Now on Sale! Manifest (zine) #11: Great & Small
- Friday Photo 01.27.23
- Friday Photo 01.13.23
- Grandmom!
- Lightning in a January Sky!
- Friday Photo 01.06.23
- NEW! Manifest (zine) #11: Great & Small
- Spring No More
- A Year in Books (2022)
- Harry Anderson Saved My Life
- Late December Bird Watch
- Friday Photo 12.16.22
- Surprising Gift Idea (+ video)
- Friday Photo 12.09.22
- Monday Musing: Zen Again, Zen Again
- Creative Gift Ideas
- Breath Counting
- They’re building infrastructure in the woods
- Chronos Weeps
- Thank you.
- Osprey Sighting at Thanksgiving 2022
- Friday Photo 11.11.22
- Friday Photo 11.04.22
- Fairytale
- Friday Photo 10.28.22
- Friday Photo 10.21.22
- Friday Photo 10.07.22
- Looking for something to read?
- Banned Books Week 2022
- NEW! Limited Edition Issue of MANIFEST (zine)
- Upon Meeting My Dad at the Library
- The Sense of Grief
- Sleeping on Arch Street
- Now Available! Manifest (zine): Heroically Found
- THE EXCHANGE: A Statewide Connecticut Artist Treasure Hunt
- The Pond is Quiet Today
- Upon the Death of a Friend, 1986
- Summer Song at 4 a.m.
- Subscribe to Manifest (zine) today!
- Now that you know about zines…
- Swan Song
- Want to Know More About Zines?
- Preview: Cat Lady Confessions
- MANIFEST (zine): Cat Lady Confessions
- Zines Should Be Treasured
- MANIFEST (zine) Part of State-wide Art Treasure Hunt
- Hold-in-Your-Hand Art Installations
- What is MANIFEST (zine)?
- I wanna publish ‘zines…
- But I Love The Zine
- Preview: It’s About Time
- MANIFEST (zine): It’s About Time
- 4 a.m. and I am one a part of all
- How Zine Libraries Are Highlighting Marginalized Voices
- Girl, Cat, Fish
- 3 Chairs at Quimby’s in Chicago!
- Preview: Crickets
- MANIFEST (zine): Crickets
- How to Zine — Three Chairs Publishing
- Preview: Refuge, A Quarantine Zine
- MANIFEST (zine): Refuge, A Quarantine Zine
- Zines: The Power of DIY Print (short documentary)
- Preview: Lexicon Zoom
- MANIFEST (zine): Lexicon Zoom
- A Brief History of Zines
- Preview: Water
- I’ll Be Right Back…
- MANIFEST (zine): Water
- Zines at the Library
- Preview: Endemic
- Grace
- MANIFEST (zine): Endemic
- What is a zine?
- Happy Birthday, MANIFEST (zine)!
- It’s International Zine Month!
- In the ruins of my cathedral
- NOW ON SALE: MANIFEST (zine): Endemic
- Transformation
- NOW ON SALE! Manifest (zine) #8
- Sunday Sabbath
- #30 – Vacation
- #29 – What will make a bookmark…
- #28 – Camouflage
- #27 – I saw a secret to share
- #26 – JOY!
- #25 – Goddess of Mercy & Compassion
- #24 – Room of Books
- #23 – chills are a stress response
- #22 – You Spin Me Right Round (for Earth Day)
- #21 – Surface Tension
- #20 – Lip Twitch (So Sayeth Dr. Google)
- #19 – Morning Respite from the Fray
- #18 – One of a Thousand Lives
- #17 – God: The Anthropocene Interview, Part I
- #16 – On Easter
- #15 – Ghosts
- #14 – don’t save me from this morning
- #13 – Dream 4.13.22
- #12 – Honest Senryū
- #11 – Not Today.
- Huzzah! Broken Pencil!
- #10 – Meant to Shine
- #9 – Protego Totalum
- #8 – Overnight
- #7 – The Muses Kept Knocking
- #6 – Untethered
- #5 – Lost Pleasures
- #4 – Screen Porch Solo
- #3 – Look, up in the sky…
- #2 – Enchantress
- #1 – The Science of Women
- WWW Wednesday (March 30)
- In Which Alice Finds Rabbit
- Chaos Theory
- The Fabric of Our Lives
- It’s a Collaborative Effort, Really
- Random Acts of Writing Turns 12
- Storykeeper
- Making Snow
- SPRING 2022: No Other Choice
- A Tale of Two Stories in Guilford, CT
- Sudden Death
- Truth Bears Out
- A Hemlock Story
- February 12: BOOK SIGNING & ART EXHIBIT
- Author reaches out to old love online, writes about it in new novel
- Everyone Needs a Guide
- Rest Stop, Mile Marker 173
- WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE: A SORT-OF LOVE STORY, A New Book by Jen Payne
- New Book! Save the Date!
- Donut Girl
- Future Perfect
- Zoom in!
- Forest Fellow
- A Good New Year
- My Year in Books
- MANIFEST (zine): Zoom Zoom Zoom!
- Christmas Wonder
- An Odd Courting
- Kismet
- Missing Iguana
- Discarded
- Canal Street Epiphany
- Sometimes Hearts Need Time to Catch Up
- Oxymorons
- Creativity Makes a Great Gift!
- Star-crossed
- Memory Vended
- Silly is as Silly Does
- Hindsight is 2020
- SEEN: THE ZINE SCENE
- MANIFEST (zine) – A Quarantine Zine
- Patience
- Soggy Poems & Dead Ends
- We’ll have memories for company, long after the songs are gone
- The Latest News Zine
- What is the force that moves us? Perhaps it’s music?
- MANIFEST (zine): Divine Intervention
- Every body wants to be a cat…sing along!
- MANIFEST (zine): Cat Lady Confessions
- MANIFEST (zine)…It’s About Time
- The Sound of Crickets
- WHAT’S THAT? Manifest (zine): Crickets
- If you are a dreamer, come in…
- Hold-in-Your-Hand Art Installation
- What is MANIFEST (zine)?
- Happy Birthday, MANIFEST (zine)!
- Happy International Zine Month 2021!
- Within Her Confines
- Sunday Morning
- The Messy Business of Creating
- Life Lessons from Dad
- Finding Leonard Cohen down a Rabbit Hole
- The Healing Process
- NEW! Manifest (zine): Crickets
- Spinning Jenny
- Pieces of Thought
- MANIFEST (zine): What’s Old, What’s New, What’s Coming
- 9 – Seven Degrees of an Active Shooter
- 8 – Night Music
- 7 – Mindfulness
- 6 – Apple of Discord
- 5 – Can You Hear Me Now?
- 4 – Coyote Vision
- 3 – The Wrong Impression
- 2 – I prayed he left more than a spoon
- 1 – Morning Haiku
- April Is National Poetry Month!
- The S.S. (Space Ship) Pussiewillow II
- MANIFEST (zine): It’s About Time
- Alternate Ending
- Foodie Friday: Marmalade Haddock
- Memoir
- Connecticut Poets Included in New Anthology of Poems
- Gotta Create! Gotta Celebrate!
- Identity Theft
- Transubstantiation
- Suggested Title: Tenacious
- Waning Crescent
- Dance! I say. Dance!
- Foodie Friday: 2-Ingredient Pancakes
- Adjourned
- MANIFEST (zine): Cat Lady Confessions
- This Long Winter Weekend: What are you reading?
- Mea Culpa
- Encroachment
- MANIFEST (zine): Divine Intervention
- Cat Lady Confessions
- January 20, 2020
- In a hopeful, albeit futile, attempt to control the fates of 2021…
- A Common Heart Beats in All of Us
- What Treasures Await?
- Sanderlings
- My Year in Books 2020
- A Holiday Wish
- Creative Holiday Gift Ideas
- Because Things Grow: Hope
- Waiting
- Sun Rise
- VIDEO: Chikmedia Holiday Gift Guide
- An Interview with MANIFEST (zine)
- Coin-Operated Press Christmas Zine Fair
- Foodie Friday: Le Pain Aux Raisins
- MANIFEST (zine): Cat Lady Confessions
- When the rain, rain, rain came down, down, down
- This Thanks Giving
- Chikmedia Holiday Gift Guide
- There’s Something Greater
- What can hibernating bears teach humans?
- Whatcha Readin’?
- Birdsong on November 5, 2020
- Gratitude
- Bwah Ha Ha Ha – Flossers in the Wild!
- Even Now: The Solace of Nature
- Chores
- A Good Traveling Companion for 2020
- Dragon Dawn
- Wednesday
- Evidence of Flossing: The Movie
- Welcome Books!
- Our Sad Riddle
- Foodie Friday: Sesame Tamari Sauce
- A Gettysburg Address
- To Reconnect with Nature is Certain Cure
- Found Poem: Eau de Parfum
- When it’s so hard to see…
- Measuring Water by Sound
- An Open Letter to My Family about the Election
- Foodie Friday: Meatball Ragout with Swiss Chard
- It’s the Weekend!
- Friends 2020
- And so it goes.
- Projecting
- The View From Here: August 31
- Support A Place Called Hope, Birds of Prey Rehabilitation & Education Center
- Foodie Friday: Miso Corn Sauté
- New Leaf
- Sims 2020
- 11 Years and Counting
- What the World Needs Now is a Little Freddie Mercury
- Foodie Friday: Pissaladière
- Shop ‘til you drop…with consequences
- Poetry is…
- Funny, sad, sexy, maddening…
- Found Senryū
- Sunday Reading
- July 2020
- Dream 072220
- What is life without music?
- Memoir
- MANIFEST (zine): Divine Intervention
- Everything is connected…
- Happy International Zine Month
- Reading Mary Oliver in a Pandemic
- Coping with the Unexpected
- The Afghan
- Discover the Possibility of Divine Connection
- Summer 2020
- Vision’s Hard to Come By when It’s 2020
- A Naturalist’s Journal of Connections
- Flexible Flyer
- Thursday Rain
- Flossers in the Wild!
- Heist
- Ever Effervescent
- Would God floss? Do spiders sing? Can you see the Universe in your reflection?
- A Pandemic Reflection
- Oh for this company of a cat
- Weighing My Options
- Road Trip Big Bend: Coda
- Road Trip Big Bend: Playlist
- Road Trip Big Bend: This one time…in Mexico
- Reflections on Nature, Life, Breath, Balance, Spirit
- Road Trip Big Bend: El Camino Del Rio
- Road Trip Big Bend: It’s a Ghost Town
- Road Trip Big Bend: Mavericks
- Road Trip Big Bend: West Texas Women
- Road Trip Big Bend: Scenic Drive
- Road Trip Big Bend: Big Bend National Park
- Road Trip Big Bend: The Gage
- Love Poems to the Something Greater within All of Us
- Road Trip Big Bend: Marathon, Texas
- Road Trip Big Bend: Austin to Marathon
- What He Said
- In Which Emily Got Baked and More…
- Retreat by Proxy
- 30 – It’s a Hell of a Town
- 29 – Getting Out
- Finding the Solace of Nature
- 28 – There was something I wanted to say but…
- 27 – Little Blessings
- 26 – Trickster Dreams
- 25 – Feather Juggler
- Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt
- 24 – How Do You Know a Heart
- 23 – Love thy neighbor as thyself
- 22 – Earth Day 2020
- 21 – The Logic of Greed
- 20 – Monday Haiku
- 19 – Not much between despair and ecstasy
- 18 – First Teacher
- The Big Picture
- 17 – Moonshadow
- 16 – Pandemic Perspective
- Poet Jen Payne
- 15 – Quit Giving Me Gray Hair
- 14 – Pandemic Mechanics
- 13 – Storm in a Pandemic
- 12 – Grave Tenders
- 11 – 2 Cups: An Ode to Bisquick
- 10 – Like Tinnitus
- 9 – Mind’s Eye
- 8 – Dream’s Landscape
- 7 – Imposter Poet
- 6 – Star Child
- You are braver than you believe & stronger than you seem…
- 5 – Sunday Haiku
- 4 – Pandemic Pause
- 3 – Useful
- 2 – Soap
- 1 – Level Up!
- It’s National Poetry Month!
- Blessing Shout Out!
- Finding Inspiration
- Calm Down
- Countdown to NaPoWriMo!
- Spring 2020 Haiku
- Coping in Our Genes
- Coping Tools
- Gratitude
- Let Go
- Settle
- Spring Comes No Matter
- Gotta!
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