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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 […]

I realized that I neglected to mention one of the big differences between magazine writing and content writing in my last post. The content sites I write for require a resume, application, and writing samples, but once you’re in, you’re in. You claim the assignment you want to work on, write it, pass it on […]

Disclaimer: this entry is certain to be an absolute bore to anyone not interested in freelance writing. There will be no funny stories about my kids. No feminist rants. No pithy (or not) spiritual meanderings. Just the nitty gritty about what I’ve been doing to earn money in the last couple months, and how you […]

When your three-year-old tells you that he has to poop in the potty, it’s best to believe him, even if you’re 99.9% certain he’s just saying it to stall his nap. Over and out. Read more at http://jennyraearmstrong.blogspot.com.