Jen Selk – Page 5 – this is everything

Review of Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)

BOOKS | Review of Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) | David Sedaris | Little Brown. It took me a very long time to get through this book. That’s not a criticism. For a couple of weeks, ...

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Scrappy little nobody review

BOOKS | Scrappy little nobody review | Anna Kendrick, Simon and Schuster, 2016. Who the fuck is Anna Kendrick? I’m pushing 40, so when I picked up this book at the thrift store, I had no ...

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Clair Huxtable is the best

RETRO TV | Clair Huxtable is the best. She’s the TV mom who taught me the most. Our faves are problematic. I know that, but it’s been a hard pill to swallow. Re-examining my love for ...

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Rewatching My So-Called Life (was actually really hard)

MY SO-CALLED MEMORIES | In rewatches begin responsibilities? Maybe. Regardless, rewatching My So-Called Life gutted me. There was just something about My So-Called Life (MSCL). After its premiere ...

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August and Everything After (a Counting Crows relisten)

MUSIC & MEMORY | Revisiting “August and Everything After”. I first heard Counting Crows on the radio in the spring of 1994. I was wearing one of my Dad’s oversized burgundy dress ...

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In defense of stuff (or KonMari sucks)

LIVING | Confession: I have never – not once – come across a thrift store, yard sale, flea market, or so-called “junk” pile that didn’t contain at least one thing I’ve ...

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Three types of millennials I’d love to stab (jk, jk)

OPINION | I hate millennials. Not all millennials, just those I’ve had the misfortune to know. I’m only half kidding when I say I hate millenials. (Three quarters kidding? 10 percent ...

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Nailed it! My life in Pinterest fails

LIVING | Listen, perfection is overrated. When it comes to decorating, homemaking, and the domestic arts, I make a lot of mistakes. This is awkward because as a semi-hermit with ...

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You may ask yourself, how did I get here?

BABY | Elizabeth Murray was born on a Sunday. She came into the world just after six am, weighing around six and a half pounds. And at this very moment, she is nearing six months old. (Now we are ...

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Sloane Crosley’s The Clasp, review

REIVEW | Sloane Crosley’s The Clasp | Picador. Sloane Crosley’s The Clasp is a novel. This may surprise you, since Crosley is famous for her essays. The Clasp is also the first thing ...

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35 weeks and all’s well

PREGNANCY | Hey yo. So let’s start right off with the good stuff: I’m officially 35 weeks along and my evil spawn continues to marinate. After the whole saga with being hospitalized, ...

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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 ...

Stories from home

Sentinel fragments

The buried, alive

Go deep

F2020 ORC – The yellow bathroom (I go back to black)

Review of Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)

Scrappy little nobody review

Clair Huxtable is the best

Rewatching My So-Called Life (was actually really hard)

August and Everything After (a Counting Crows relisten)

In defense of stuff (or KonMari sucks)

Three types of millennials I’d love to stab (jk, jk)

Nailed it! My life in Pinterest fails

You may ask yourself, how did I get here?

Sloane Crosley’s The Clasp, review

35 weeks and all’s well

Birthdays all around