Author: jennifervaknine

Grocery Lists & Poetry Snippets

I’m not a natural poetry writer. I don’t refer to myself as a poet. I enjoy writing poetry, but I often read other writers who seem to come so naturally to imagery, who filter feeling into concrete words with such care, and I know that I have a long way to go with this craft. […]

2019

It’s been a year. I started writing when most authors begin — as soon as I could hold a pencil. And then I stopped as many stop — because I had a family, a job, a diabetic dog… because I had responsibilities, and that YA space opera novel that I wasn’t even skilled enough to […]