Soul searching

There is a fair amount of self-help out there detailing how one can do it all, be it all, live the life you have imagined (and so on, etc). I respectfully disagree. You and I will never reach our potential. What potential exactly do you have in mind? Your potential when…

Hi there. Me again. It’s been a while. Once you’ve stopped doing something on a semi-regular or scheduled basis and that gap in time starts to grow, it feels like you have to do something great if you want to start again. Make some huge commitment or declaration. It starts…

Somehow the universe sent me a message tonight to check the date of the first blog post of the Jenaissance and–what do you know–TODAY is one year exactly from the birth of this blog. I, of course, feel this needs to be marked by at least a tiny little short…

I trust that most of the regular readers I had developed over the first couple of months of relatively regular posting (the ten of you) will have abandoned me by now as I have pretty much stopped posting except for the occasional shared article with brief commentary. (Number one rule…

I haven’t written a new post since reading this article on Medium (A Leslie Knope In a World Full of Liz Lemons, subhead: Liz Lemon is who the world wants you to be. Leslie Knope is who you should aim to be). It’s a great piece and I won’t try…

I turn 40 this year. Turns out a lot of people I know do too. And a lot of people I don’t know also. Yesterday, I read this article about a Brooklyn woman turning 40: Age 40: Ain’t nobody got time for that. I really understood the perspective, and celebrated…

Blogging is sort of like keeping a diary and sharing it with all of your friends. And also people you haven’t spoken with in 20 years, and distant relatives, and faraway strangers. And possibly perverts. Luckily for me, right now it’s just me and 300 or so of my closest…

I feel it’s important to share that I am deeply embarrassed by the blog name, Jenaissance. I am also embarrassed to be a .net. Additionally, I am aware that blogs with photos, or some attempt at decent layout and organization, are more successful and likely more enjoyable for everyone involved.…

During the process of packing for our move I was confronted with several major life crises involving whether or not to pack and move something from the old house to the new house. Example: I have a box full of cooking magazines from 2005-2006. Old Gourmets, Saveurs, a couple Art of…

Yesterday I sat in my car and googled the term ‘manic depression’. I wasn’t sure exactly what that term means, and I had a tiny secret fear that maybe it has something to do with me. With the fact that I started a blog the week before I moved to…