by jennifer | Feb 26, 2018 | Writing Research
My name is Jennifer and I’m a magazine addict. Many places in life demand I exert some self-control; in most situations, I’m capable of doing so. In fact, I’ve gone the past five weeks both (mostly) sugar- and (totally) alcohol-free simply because I...
by jennifer | Sep 8, 2017 | Writing Research
Every now and then, in a writer’s world, a strange confluence occurs when her work and her real life collide, and it’s difficult to remember what’s fiction and what’s fact. I’m deep into the writing of my next novel. Normally, I...
by jennifer | Aug 15, 2016 | Travel, Writing Research
New York Public Lbrary Street garden Chinese festival in park The kids are at sleepaway camp till the end of this week. And, oh, have I been living it up! What exciting things have I done while they’re away that I can’t do when they’re at home? left...
by jennifer | Jul 29, 2015 | History, Writing Research
I’m revising Modern Girls, and in the course of making changes, I’m doing a lot of research. So far I’ve looked at an early 1900s NYC streetcar map, researched Socialist speakers in the 1930s, and am trying to draw that fine distinction between a...
by jennifer | Jun 30, 2015 | Food, Genealogy, Writing Research
Baking. Writing. Being a mom. Hey, it’s summer! Let’s do all three. What could go wrong? Yeah, right. In combining both my genealogy and writing research, I had the great idea of trying to re-create some of the recipes that 1) my family has mentioned...
