Sentinel fragments
FRAGMENTS | Are you seeing this? With my thumbs, in the dark, I wrote a first draft of this essay (if it is an essay?) in January, soon after the COVID-19 death toll in the United States crossed ...
Melusine and the sea
STORY | Melusine and The Sea (a wee tale for wee people by Jen Selk) Melusine lived in a little place, overlooking an enormous sea. And she didn’t like it. She was afraid of the water. She ...
Welcome to the cult of bedtime
PARENTING | So I initially wrote this on my phone. With my thumbs. From 9:30-10:30 PM at night, in that first window of free time I have after my child, The Smeetch, has (dog willing) finally ...
Same pattern on the table, same clock on the wall
BLOG | Happy fucking birthday to me! And to this website! Have you noticed it looks a little different these days? Yep. A mere 13 years after launching, I have finally gotten around to getting ...
This is two
BLOG | Smeetchy turns two. It’s hard to believe, hard to accept, hard to comprehend. Back in the summer I know I said that the last ten years have fairly raced by, and that is true, but it ...
Then and now and then again
BLOG | For the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking about blogging – trying to blog – about the past 10 years. That’s probably why it’s hasn’t really been working. How do ...
Birthdays all around
BLOG | It’s my birthday. I am 35 years old today. Jen Selk is 35. THE BLOG jenselk.com IS TEN. Believe it! We are both sailing into our twilight years, Internet people. We are riding the ...