“I’m the son of Nicholas Cage and Marie Presley,” said the owner of the record shop Dave and I stopped in on our way to the Washington coast. That the place was filled to the brim from the smoke of a freshly put-out cigarette made me grateful to have a mask on. In between riflingContinue reading “Floaty Dirt”
Author Archives: Jaclynn Loibl
Sudden Loss
My heart is heavy over the sudden death of a friend. Her name is Cory, and just last weekend Dave and I met her and her husband and their two children, a year-old boy and 4-year-old girl at the park to talk, walk and let the children play. It was a rainy and windy day.Continue reading “Sudden Loss”
Wish You Were Here
With twenty minutes to go until the next counseling session, I’m sitting on a blue and white accent chair with my left leg crossed over my right, and I’m chuckling about a phone call that’s just ended. “I found the perfect therapist, but it’s too far of a drive and they don’t accept my insurance.”Continue reading “Wish You Were Here”
Close Up
Do you think we, as a species, take ourselves too seriously? I do. Yet it’s funny because even as I’m mulling over the idea, there’s a large part of me that wants to argue the point about how serious a matter it is. But setting that aside for a moment, do you get just howContinue reading “Close Up”
Reviewer Extraordinaire
Have I told you how much I love Buy Nothing, the Facebook group where people list items for free, and it’s all within your community? Well, I am now, and I’m here to say: I. Freaking. Love. It. So you know, we got our fancy toaster, guest room dresser, James Taylor concert tickets, toddler bed,Continue reading “Reviewer Extraordinaire”
Come A Little Closer
Eh, or is it ay? Happy Family’s Day to all of the Canadian’s out there! It only took playing a bit of virtual poker this afternoon with someone from Toronto, otherwise known as a Torontonian, to clue me in on my border neighbor’s lovely holiday. So I watched “Coda” like I said I would. AndContinue reading “Come A Little Closer”
Seed Massacre
So how about those taxes? Am I right or am I right, boy do they suck! I’d much rather be holding my breath to see whether the Russia Olympic Committee figure skater will land a triple toe loop than watch anxiously as the ticker of the Federal Tax amount due rises. So to make myselfContinue reading “Seed Massacre”
Round Here
“Self-discovery through reading is often revelatory and freeing, but not always pleasant. It makes us look within, and that is sometimes painful.” This is from “The Power of Habit,” the book I started reading yesterday. Being human is complicated. I can interpret the events in my life through totally different lenses; sometimes, I see myselfContinue reading “Round Here”
Small Town
In no particular order, the town I grew up in is a cross between Cheers, Friends, and Schitt’s Creek. And for those reasons I both loved and hated it. I didn’t like the screwed-up game of telephone; where everyone seemed to know a bit of information about everybody, but it mainly was distorted and missingContinue reading “Small Town”
Work It
My attitude tonight reminds me of a newcomer in Alcoholics Anonymous. “Hi, I’m Jaclynn, and I’m a writer. I wish I could stop, but I can’t. There are paper and pens and blank documents everywhere. There’s no escaping it. And the worst of all is my mind; it came up with five hundred ideas todayContinue reading “Work It”