Jen Merrill's Blog

When I started this here blog, way back in The Year of Our WTF 2006, it had a different name. It worked until I was tired of seeing the word never in the title. Too negative, it wore on me, …

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Usually on New Year’s Eve Day I’m nostalgic for the year about to end, remembering the good days and hoping I’d done right by my time on the earth. Not yesterday. Much like 2011, 2023 can fuck right off and …

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I left Twitter.
That's it. That's the post.

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A Word of the Year is a linguistic longterm relationship. Choose wisely.

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I love the idea of the Recombobulation Station, a place to pause, breathe, and put things to rights.

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So with a slight whimper I sigh, lift my paper bag of banana peels high, and once more into the breach go I.

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Writing makes me happy and I’m happy to welcome it back into my life.

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It was Thanksgiving before I had a chance to take a deep breath and realize just why things felt so out of control. Because they were…

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A 24 hour wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am (aside: that’s a horrible phrase, WTF) college visit to my alma mater behind us, I’m exhausted. Jack liked the campus, liked the…

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We got one kid off to college and boom we’re in the thick of it again. I’m on the road with Jack tonight, traveling to my…

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