Author Archive | Jenny Rae Armstrong

Okay, writer friends–here’s a video I stumbled across today about how to find freelance writing jobs online, created by Rob Ferrall, the mind behind Daily Writing Jobs. This video has a lot of great tips about finding writing opportunities targeted to the type of writing you want to do and your areas of expertise. Anyone […]

I got my first real piece of “fan mail” today. I’ve gotten nice emails and encouraging comments about articles I’ve published in the past, but this was different, a plain white envelope addressed to Jenny Rae Armstrong, Maple, WI. (One of the distinct advantages of living in a small town–the postal workers know who you […]

There was an interesting article up today at relevantmagazine.com about How the Church Can Fail Women. The thing I find fascinating is how precisely the article reflects my own experiences, and how many of the comments reflect the “it doesn’t matter” mindset I’ve encountered so often in Christian circles. I am not certain whether to […]

And because my life isn’t always so nuts… Read more at http://jennyraearmstrong.blogspot.com.

Okay, I’m feeling better now. Thanks for all you thoughts and prayers. Jamison is doing better, too. He set a new record and slept until one in the afternoon today–14 hours straight–so I think he was just WAY sicker than he let on. And everyone tends to freak out when they’re sick and overtired. Myself […]

This was a hard night. A good, though exhausting day, but a hard night. Jamison was sick last night, so we didn’t give him his medicine this morning. Autism + no medicine = not good. Since he was sick last night, and we had Jam rehersal today, we let Jamison hang out in his room […]

So, after submitting a super-fun article to Demand Studios and realizing that what I wrote was not at all what they were looking for (evidently they wanted a building plan???) I re-titled my article “How to Decorate a Princess Bed” and posted it on my sorely neglected eHow account. I’ve been a bit dubious about […]

Stolen from my cousin’s facebook account: That adorable “face in the hole” belongs to my cousin Keri Del, not Bella. Keri’s much cuter, IMHO. Edward should be so lucky. Edited to add: I just found out my brilliant, artistic cousin Deo frankensteined this together on Photoshop. 🙂 He’s a graphic design whiz. There’s more to […]

This breaks my heart. Another young African man lured into violence. The sole pirate surviving the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips has been sent to New York to stand trial. His mother says that Abdi Wali Abdulqadir Muse (according to her the press got his name wrong–I’m going with the mamma’s version) is only sixteen, […]

Ten years ago today I didn’t have a television, but my father-in-law, who was living with us, did. It didn’t sink in when he told me that there was something horrible happening at a school in Colorado, but I followed him down the stairs to the basement anyway, stared at the screen. I recognized the […]

While I’ve been busy plotting my conquest of the writing world (three articles accepted in one week! Hurray!) my friend Lacey has been writing about issues close to my heart at the Young Adult Catholics blog. Her post Condoms, Catholicism, and Consent addressed the church’s response to the spread of AIDS in Africa. She made […]

Well, there hasn’t been much blogging going on at this house lately, but I have an article up at Radiant Magazine that you can read if you’re in the mood for a Jenny-ramble. So I’ll cheat and call that updating my blog. 🙂 I do have a good excuse for neglecting my blog, though–I’ve been […]

I ran across a recent picture of mass murderer Charles Manson in my web travels today. The photo showed an old, balding man with a thick grey beard, a swastika tattooed on the creases between two dark, troubled eyes. I stared into those eyes, trying to figure out what he was thinking. Was he sorry […]

Quote of the day, from Soren Kierkegaard: “The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and […]