Are you confused?

Hi.

I know.

I’m sorry. I’m confusing. (And confused!)

I’m Jen Selk! This is my goofy website! I’ve had it since the beginning of time! (Established 2005, y’all. That’s like, 1000 in internet years.)

ANYWAY. Along the way I’ve been a professional journalist, a copywriter, an editor, a marketing manager, and a social media specialist. I’ve been a blogger, a maker, a DIYer, a reviewer, a decorator/designer, and a content creator. I am a vintage reseller and refurbisher (my store, Will & Bequeath, is currently on Etsy, though I’d rather host it myself – I just don’t have the time to sort that at the moment). I’ve done some television hosting and appeared as a pop culture pundit. When I was in my early 20s, I was a truly awful catalogue-and-newspaper model. I write (and sometimes even professionally publish) poetry and creative writing, and I launched and ran my own digital magazine for a while in the mid-aughts. I have a masters in English Literature.

I’m a mama. I’m a mixed-race woman of colour, a homemaker, and a sometimes-activist and “social justice warrior” (but in the good ‘i’m proud of it’ way, not in the way cis het white men on the internet mean it).

I am often very tired.

At the time of this writing, I am in the midst of a huge site redesign and am slowly (SO SLOWLY) re-uploading and reformatting old content, so this place is a bit of a mess, and for that I’m sorry. Eventually I’ll be finished, and then more of the text you see on this page will link you to other areas of the (actually completed) site, and it’ll all be beautiful and fun and you’ll like it. You’ll see.

Be patient! For realz, though? I’ve been online since about 1995, and used to think that keeping all my interests and projects separate made a lot of sense. I’ve changed my mind of late, and this site is the result. It’s nearly everything. Or it will eventually be everything. All in one place. Feel free to just bop around and do your thing. There’s some really hilarious and terrible baby journalism already up, if you feel like diving back into the horrors of 1999, etc.

As I said on the homepage of the very first incarnation of jenselk.com: This is a website. You’ve probably seen one before. And even if you haven’t, I’m sure you’ll figure it out.

I [still] believe in you.