Jen Selk – Page 5 – this is everything

Will & Bequeath vintage is back!

SHOP NEWS | Three years ago I had a baby. I first opened Will & Bequeath back in 2012 after leaving my last, traditional, non-freelance office job (in advertising, on the copy editing side), ...

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To all the toys I’ve loved before

PARENTING | My Smeetch is in the midst of a series of love affairs. She takes up with, then abandons, stuffed animals and other soft toys at a rate that feels staggering and terrifying. It is ...

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Holy shit, Dietland is so good

BOOKS | Dietland is so good. So good. Amazingly good. Riveting. And Sarai Walker is a warrior genius. Damn, y’all. Where has this book been all my life? I’ve been reading a lot ...

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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 ...

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Calypso by David Sedaris, review

BOOK REVIEW | Calypso by David Sedaris | Little Brown. At this point, blogging a review of anything by David Sedaris feels pretty presumptuous. Like, who the fuck am I to “review” ...

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Happy Mama’s Day!

MAMA LIFE | Happy Mama’s Day! This bullshit holiday has wormed into my black and shrivelled heart. Good lord, I am such a SUCKER. Like, I never thought I’d be the sort of person who ...

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Look Alive Out There, review

BOOKS | New collection of essays by Sloane Crosley is good, but Look Alive Out There still irks me | Macmillan. I don’t think I’m a particularly good judge of Sloane Crosley’s ...

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The hardest part (teeth dreams)

ESSAY | There is a dream I have sometimes, where all my teeth fall out. In various iterations of this dream, whole molars loosen and drop like a surprise into the space of my mouth, or an ...

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Smeetchy at the Movies: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)

MOVIE | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer toddler review. Look, the 1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special is batshit. There’s no other way to put it. It’s whackadoodle. ...

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Little ol me, Pushcart Prize nominee

NEWS | Welp! This is a surprise. The very kind and wonderful folks over at Dead Housekeeping (who published my little flash memoir piece about my grandmother back in May), have nominated that ...

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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 ...

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Smeetchy at the Movies: SING!

MOVIES | Sing! toddler review. I really didn’t like Sing! I mean, I could have liked it, maybe, if I hadn’t been trying to watch it with a squirmy baby-toddler-creature who had ...

The Write Cup

MIPP Double Finalist

Fourscore

Poetry weekend no. 23

Qwerty 51: Post & Beam

Will & Bequeath vintage is back!

To all the toys I’ve loved before

Holy shit, Dietland is so good

Same pattern on the table, same clock on the wall

Calypso by David Sedaris, review

Happy Mama’s Day!

Look Alive Out There, review

The hardest part (teeth dreams)

Smeetchy at the Movies: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)

Little ol me, Pushcart Prize nominee

This is two

Smeetchy at the Movies: SING!