Author Archives: Jaclynn Loibl

You know that moment right after a magician performs a magic trick and dramatically flings their cape with widened eyes, exclaiming, “Tada!”? Well, I realized today, and for a while now, that I do the same thing. Only with my friends. Let me explain. As my phone call switched from the privacy of my BluetoothContinue reading “Presto Friendo”

Highlight and delete. Every day is the same. The blog from yesterday is gone, and today another one percolates in my mind. Like the upright stainless steel one I had my morning cup of coffee from. I’m feeling insecure about the future. Part of me feels like the man with autism on the episode ofContinue reading “Point Person Please”

Sleeping on a small wooden toddler bed in the same room as Dave and me, Evelyn woke in pain from the underside of her knee. Growing pains is my guess. Once at 1am and another at 3am. After Dave consoled her (he was closer), but it took a while for me to fall back asleep.Continue reading “On the Road”

“Don’t you understand your mind is not your friend?” The repeated lyrics fill the car, an unknown song to me momentarily frees me from my deep thoughts. Thoughts that feel inescapable, a rat’s maze that hits dead ends without cheese or water in sight. What’s wrong with me? This seems to be the question guidingContinue reading “Stick it to ‘Em: A Personal Philosophy”

I don’t know if it’s the running, the new tight leggings I’m wearing to the Y, or what, but I’m feeling attractive. Like standing back in the mirror and turning my face side to side, running my hands down my sides and legs, and saying, “Yep, I got it.” I’m not always this way. ButContinue reading “Do You Think I’m Sexy?”

I felt torn. Part of me wanted a weekend away at the ocean with my friends Reid and Paul, and another wanted Dave and Evelyn to go. Being a mother and wife are newer roles for me, as has been the level of commitment I feel to them. So to just hop in the carContinue reading “My Friends: Reid and Paul”

If you got me a poinsettia for Christmas, you better believe I’ve kept it alive until now. Better yet, I’ve even emptied out the spray bottle of vinegar, replaced it with water, and spritzed it today. Sure, I let it get dry a week ago, and it’s since dropped a ton of leaves, but sinceContinue reading “Plant Whisperer”

“Who comes to the airport and sightsees?” That’s my Dad talking, he’s in the middle lane, searching for United airline’s signage. You know how people pause, stop anywhere and everywhere? Well, he’s not a fan. All the way here, he’s sped, as much as twenty miles per hour over the speed limit. He’s determined toContinue reading “Birthday Belle”

The single hammock acts like a sail on the back porch, swirling in circles and flinging itself into the air. It’s a glimpse of foreshadowing; a thin strip on the weather map shows our area as the target for gusts up to 50 mph. For now, the weather station is clocking us in at 4.5Continue reading “Flying Monsters”