Author Archives: Jaclynn Loibl

I want to do a scream of consciousness. Not the lovely stream, but the kind where the day’s filled with endless “I’m hungry”—right as the cart fills with groceries or at 8 pm when bedtime is overdue. A holler seems pretty reasonable right about now. Then there’s health insurance, home and car insurance, and aContinue reading “Scream of Conscious”

I spend just as much time barefoot as I do in shoes. Today, I walked next door to my sister-in-law’s house on the sun-kissed asphalt. Entering her yard, I knelt on the ground—one knee, then the other— sitting on my bottom, then lowered my head back until it rested on the calloused earth beneath me.Continue reading “Falling Slowly”

Joey and I read a chapter from Ursula LeGuin’s “Steering the Craft” each week. Like me, Joey’s into writer’s books on writing, and this week’s chapter on adverbs and adjectives had us independently underlining the phrase “take responsibility” from Chapter 5. I’m taking the advice a step further and writing it on a stickie, andContinue reading “Leave it to the Bees”

Three times during a counseling session with Veronica, let’s call her Veronica, I asked, “Hurtful or helpful?” Each time, she whispered “Hurtful” about the thoughts she was having, and each admission felt like a guilty plea, a confession to a jury. I’m not the executioner—she is. Her abandonment, betrayal, and self-deception she’s having internally areContinue reading “Hurtful or Helpful”

I’m not one hundred percent sure who just drove past and honked. The small truck with two passengers was hauling a lawn mower on a trailer, moving too fast for me to catch a face. I’m at one of my new favorite spots: the eight-foot-wide (give or take) entrance at the top of the stairsContinue reading “Music Mayhem”

I will finish unpacking tomorrow. Repeat it with me: I will finish unpacking tomorrow.  Love, Jaclynn

Pushing myself to speak to the painter at the house in Spanish, I asked, “¿Qué color o tenir es esto?” Later, Evelyn asked, “Did you speak Spanish? Why?” I explained that I love putting puzzles together and challenging my brain to do new things. Like how the subjunctive tense in Spanish is a real brainContinue reading “Funky Fresh Circles”