While my most current posts appear on the home page, and you can scroll through all of them under BLOG, this is a text-based list included as a convenience probably more for me than you. Enjoy!
- In the Library of Dreams
- Pointlessness
- New Issue! MANIFEST (zine): Pandemic Purchases
- December Waking
- Weighing Magnitudes
- In Which the Poet Considers Her Way Forward
- She Was Broken
- Fall Afternoon in the Yard with a New Knee
- Poet AWOL
- Strange Thing, This Inspiration
- Superwoman Post-Op, 3:30 a.m.
- Songbird Dreams
- Read Me (Dream #100825)
- Placebo
- Culture Shock with a Side of Swedish Meatballs, 9/12/25*
- Pandora’s Consort
- Dreamcatcher
- Over-Edited
- 30 Years is a Long Time
- In This, The World
- Dream, Driving, Rain #05-081725
- Running into Ghosts
- The Least I Could Do
- Perennial
- Sleeping with Ghosts Playlist
- Swashbuckler
- Creatively Speaking: Summer Reading
- Declaration of Independence
- Considering Sue Holloway
- The Ten Commitments
- New Issue! MANIFEST (zine): Perception
- A Woods Walk in 2025
- Bethlehem, PA – Part II
- Bethlehem, PA – Part I
- I Love Summer: An Ode of Sorts
- Help Me Continue Manifest (zine)
- Clamor
- Cast Away
- May Musing
- Remembering Mary Anne
- Inspiration: A Riff
- Screen Porch, 4 a.m.
- Love is Blind
- Fill Your Hope Tank
- Morning Haiku
- The Morning’s Palette
- Sunset Day
- About Silence
- The Algorithm
- 30-Love Underfoot
- 29-Possibility
- 28-The View from Here
- 27-April 2025
- 26-F Stop
- 25-Cue 2025
- 24-Be the Grizzly Bear!
- 23-Visiting
- 22-BFF
- 21-Mid-April Morning
- 20-Conjured
- 19-Oh Poop!
- 18-Peace in the Age of Monsters
- 017-Prayer Wheel
- 16-Reading Poems I Don’t Understand
- 15-My walk becomes an apology
- 14-To the Starlings who have moved into the Privet Hedge on Short Beach Road
- 13 – A Sunday Morning in 2025
- 12-still advancing confidently in the direction of my dreams
- 11-Chirp Chirp
- 10-Meanwhile…
- 9-Roadside Attraction
- 8-April 6, 2025
- 7-Just Enough
- 6-Pond Walk
- 5-When the Harvesters Come
- 4 – The Start of a Poem
- 3-Surely there is magic about
- 2-One Day in Spring
- 1 – Taking the YES Steps
- Happy National Poetry Month!
- Magnetism
- Creatively Speaking: Choose Real Dopamine
- Happy World Poetry Day!
- Dream #3.14159
- Celebrating 15 Years!
- Lean Into Each Other
- It’s Time to Sing
- It’s Ok. It’s Ok. It’s OK.
- Staring Down the Barrel of Age in the Middle of a Hostile Government Takeover
- Have you seen Manifest (zine) #16?
- IMPORTANT: Report from the Senate Floor
- What’s Your Resilience Plan?
- Fireside Chat & Poetry Reading with Jen Payne Honoring International Women’s Day
- INTERVIEW: Jen Payne and Kaecey McCormick, Some Thoughts: Everything Creativity
- Introducing: Books for Good
- How One Phone Call in 1996 Led to a Life of Self-Publishing
- Doing Good Works
- Upcoming Spring Events
- The Importance of Retreat
- The Season for Nonviolence
- An Exploration of Love, Memory & Meaning
- Listening to Your Ghosts
- Mea Culpa
- Let it begin with me…
- Braiding Pieces of Thought from January 20, 2025
- About the Ghosts in Sleeping with Ghosts
- Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- A Psychosomatic Response to 2025
- Darlin’, We’re All Walking on Thin Ice, I Just Have an Ounce of Common Sense
- Wolf Moon, 5 a.m.
- The Importance of Storytelling
- NOW ON SALE! Manifest (zine) #16: You Are Here
- The Artwork of Sleeping with Ghosts
- My Year in Books!
- Wishing You an Inspired New Year
- Time to Write
- 6 Great Gift Ideas
- WOW! Women on Writing Interview with Jen Payne
- The Book Nook, Connecticut Shoreline
- December 15: Poems for the Winter Solstice
- Anti-Heroin Chic
- US Review of Books: Sleeping with Ghosts
- How to Read Like a Writer
- Creatively Speaking: Do Good Here
- INTERVIEW: Jen Payne and Charity Howard
- Decoration Enough
- Good Morning Kingfisher
- A Door or a Hole
- Meet Jen Payne during Authors in The Shop at Guilford Art Center
- FEATURED: Sleeping with Ghosts on Hook of a Book!
- Finding Myself Kinda Angry These Days
- The Bookshop Evangelist
- This is Grieving
- FEATURED: Sleeping with Ghosts on Madeline Sharples Blog
- Finding Gratitude
- “Election” a Poem by Alfred K. LaMotte
- GUEST WRITER: The Artwork of Sleeping with Ghosts
- London Calling: A Dream
- GUEST WRITER: The Importance of Storytelling
- GIVE-AWAY from A Wonderful World of Words
- BOOK REVIEW by Kaecey McCormick
- A McDreamy Wandering
- GUEST WRITER: Listening to Your Ghosts
- BOOK REVIEW by Beverley Baird
- GUEST WRITER: About the Ghosts in Sleeping with Ghosts
- GUEST WRITER: The Importance of Retreat
- BOOK REVIEW at Shoe’s Seeds & Stories
- INTERVIEW: Jen Payne and Charity Howard
- INTERVIEW: Jen Payne and Kaecey McCormick, Some Thoughts: Everything Creativity
- Meet Authors in The Shop during Guilford Art Center’s Holiday Expo
- FEATURED: Sleeping with Ghosts on The Faerie Review
- GUEST WRITER: How One Phone Call in 1996 Led to a Life of Self-Publishing
- Sometimes Haunting
- INTERVIEW: Jen Payne and Tracey Lampley
- Overcoming
- BOOK REVIEW: Power of Writing Through Poetry, Memories
- FEATURED: Sleeping with Ghosts
- BOOK REVIEW: Jodi Webb on Sleeping with Ghosts
- Imposter Syndrome Soliloquy
- GUEST WRITER: “The Importance of Retreat”
- WOW! Women on Writing Interview with Jen Payne
- Sleeping with Ghosts by Jen Payne: Blog Tour & Giveaway
- Don’t Miss the WOW! Women on Writing Blog Tour!
- Mirror Mirror
- Old Great Blue
- Oh Yeah!
- Fall Morning
- Sleeping with Ghosts, a New Poetry Book by Jen Payne, Considers Love, Memory, and Storytelling
- Get a Sneak Peek of My New Book!
- Pre-Order Sleeping with Ghosts Now!
- Please Save the Dates and Help Me Welcome My New Book!
- What of her, anyway?
- they were once a family of four
- That Flag You’re Flying Tells Me All I Need to Know about You
- What Comes Around Goes Around
- July 16, 2024
- He Tows the Party Line
- For Keats, a long poem might not be a painful ordeal but…
- Things Appear Smaller from Far Away
- Morning Casualty
- Life Lessons from Dad
- Witness
- Morning Cast
- Now on Sale! Manifest (zine) WRITE
- Thoughts While Driving
- Convert
- Summer
- It’s Time! Support Manifest (zine)
- Hollow
- Next Generation
- The Whale Show
- One of the Good Guys
- Coffee Meditation
- Pay No Mind
- Great Cape Escape – Day 7
- Dream Encounter 050724
- Great Cape Escape – Day 6
- Haunting
- Great Cape Escape – Day 5
- 5 a.m. Waning Crescent Moon
- Great Cape Escape – Day 4
- Great Cape Escape – Day 3
- Great Cape Escape – Day 2
- Great Cape Escape – Day 1
- 30 – gathering moon stones
- 29 – Car Trouble
- 28 – Delusions of Grandeur
- 27 – At Province Lands
- 26 – Whale Watching
- 25 – Sleeping in Truro
- 24 – Helen
- 23 – Monsters Among Us
- 22 – Spirit Animal: Frog
- 21 – Soundtrack
- 20 – Considering the New Red Car
- 19 – The Story I Didn’t Write
- 18 – Some Days I Hate to Turn the Page
- 17 – Melancholy Musing
- 16 – This Morning, 6 a.m.
- 15 – Exit Strategy
- 14 – Hidden Superpower
- 13 – Poetry
- 12 – Cat Care Haiku
- 11 – Periphery (or sandwiched in between here and what comes next)
- 10 – Tribute
- 9 – Old(ish) Woman Walking
- 8 – Wit’s End
- 7 – Kismet
- 6 – String Theory
- 5 – If someone walked into your heart what would they see?
- 4 – Witching Hour
- 3 – Rain: A Haiku
- 2 – To Be or Not to Be a Poet
- 1 – April arrives in flames
- Spring Observation
- 14 Fun Facts about Random Acts of Writing
- Yoga on the Screen Porch at 4
- The Poet at Midnight
- So Late in the Day: A Response Poem
- NOW ON SALE! You Mean a Woman Can Open It?
- Poetry Assignment by the Docks
- Spacetime
- I am what I think. We are what we share.
- Trapped (Dream 012524)
- Gobsmacked at the Gallery
- They Called it a Microburst, But I Know Better
- Happy New Year!
- Just What the Doctor Ordered
- A Year in Books (2023)
- What Would Jesus Do: A 100-Word Rant
- Sunday Drive
- Inroads
- And the Beat Goes On
- Trespass
- Dream Collaboration
- What is Ambiguous Grief?
- The Bear Prince
- I Keep Writing Epitaphs
- She Sees It is All Connected
- The Mimics of a Lifetime
- Eating Liangfen in the Love & Relationships Bagua
- in what we have done
- Punctuated Equilibrium
- May all beings…
- Namaste
- Library Visit: A Dream
- Zeitgeist
- Altered
- Interstate Epitaph
- A Mouse Tale
- MANIFEST (zine): Stressed Spelled Backwards Is DESSERTS
- How I’ll Glow Up
- Do Unto Others
- Remembering Mary Anne
- Foodie Friday: Crispy Lime Cabbage & Turmeric White Bean Mash
- Some Days I Just Want the Jiffy Corn Muffin
- Finding Exile
- Poet on a Rock
- Meeting a Mouse: A 100-Word Story
- Preparing for Aestivation
- Introvert at the Event
- Sunday’s Inspiration
- The Shy Ones’ Hour
- May’s Full Moon
- 30 – To My Muse
- 29 – Just Once in a Very Blue Moon
- 28 – New Eden Revealed
- 27 – Resistance is Futile
- 26 – When Will They Ever Learn
- 25 – I Live in a House of Cats
- 24 – Incognito
- 23 – The Fine Print: A Dream
- 22 – Rebuttal
- 21 – The things I didn’t say…
- 20 – the gods are weeping
- 19 – LOVE is My Logo
- 18 – What if La La La Is My Superpower?
- 17 – Treeline
- 16 – Double-Dutch
- 15 – Long Weekend
- 14 – The Face of Waiting
- 13 – 50-Word Classified Ad: Rose Colored Glasses
- 12 – In which the poet considers the half-life of love by way of nuclear reaction
- 11 – Places of Waiting
- 10 – Grieving Place, II
- 9 – Charlatan Prophet Preaches
- 8 – Trauma Theory
- 7 – Tribute: Sargent’s Weeping Hemlock
- 6 – What Forgiveness is Due
- 5 – Grieving Place, 1
- 4- Whispers & Jingles
- 3 – Reformation
- 2 – No Poem Today
- 1 – April Comes This Morning
- Happy National Poetry Month!
- The Moon is Dying
- When the Mania Collapses in On Itself Again
- Wonder Women
- Random Acts of Writing Turns 13!
- Under His Spell (or I am Sure He Was a Sorcerer)
- Friday Photo 03.03.23
- Enjoy the Ride!
- Friday Photo 02.24.23
- Rockport
- Friday Photo 02.17.23
- Friday Photo 02.10.23
- Get Your Just Desserts
- Narrative Arc
- Friday Photo 02.03.23
- Mini (zine): There’s No Such Thing as the Poop Fairy
- Now on Sale! Manifest (zine) #11: Great & Small
- Friday Photo 01.27.23
- Friday Photo 01.13.23
- Grandmom!
- Lightning in a January Sky!
- Friday Photo 01.06.23
- NEW! Manifest (zine) #11: Great & Small
- Spring No More
- A Year in Books (2022)
- Harry Anderson Saved My Life
- Late December Bird Watch
- Friday Photo 12.16.22
- Surprising Gift Idea (+ video)
- Friday Photo 12.09.22
- Monday Musing: Zen Again, Zen Again
- Creative Gift Ideas
- Breath Counting
- They’re building infrastructure in the woods
- Chronos Weeps
- Thank you.
- Osprey Sighting at Thanksgiving 2022
- Friday Photo 11.11.22
- Friday Photo 11.04.22
- Fairytale
- Friday Photo 10.28.22
- Friday Photo 10.21.22
- Friday Photo 10.07.22
- Looking for something to read?
- Banned Books Week 2022
- NEW! Limited Edition Issue of MANIFEST (zine)
- Upon Meeting My Dad at the Library
- The Sense of Grief
- Sleeping on Arch Street
- Now Available! Manifest (zine): Heroically Found
- THE EXCHANGE: A Statewide Connecticut Artist Treasure Hunt
- The Pond is Quiet Today
- Upon the Death of a Friend, 1986
- Summer Song at 4 a.m.
- Subscribe to Manifest (zine) today!
- Now that you know about zines…
- Swan Song
- Want to Know More About Zines?
- Preview: Cat Lady Confessions
- MANIFEST (zine): Cat Lady Confessions
- Zines Should Be Treasured
- MANIFEST (zine) Part of State-wide Art Treasure Hunt
- Hold-in-Your-Hand Art Installations
- What is MANIFEST (zine)?
- I wanna publish ‘zines…
- But I Love The Zine
- Preview: It’s About Time
- MANIFEST (zine): It’s About Time
- 4 a.m. and I am one a part of all
- How Zine Libraries Are Highlighting Marginalized Voices
- Girl, Cat, Fish
- 3 Chairs at Quimby’s in Chicago!
- Preview: Crickets
- MANIFEST (zine): Crickets
- How to Zine — Three Chairs Publishing
- Preview: Refuge, A Quarantine Zine
- MANIFEST (zine): Refuge, A Quarantine Zine
- Zines: The Power of DIY Print (short documentary)
- Preview: Lexicon Zoom
- MANIFEST (zine): Lexicon Zoom
- A Brief History of Zines
- Preview: Water
- I’ll Be Right Back…
- MANIFEST (zine): Water
- Zines at the Library
- Preview: Endemic
- Grace
- MANIFEST (zine): Endemic
- What is a zine?
- Happy Birthday, MANIFEST (zine)!
- It’s International Zine Month!
- In the ruins of my cathedral
- NOW ON SALE: MANIFEST (zine): Endemic
- Transformation
- NOW ON SALE! Manifest (zine) #8
- Sunday Sabbath
- #30 – Vacation
- #29 – What will make a bookmark…
- #28 – Camouflage
- #27 – I saw a secret to share
- #26 – JOY!
- #25 – Goddess of Mercy & Compassion
- #24 – Room of Books
- #23 – chills are a stress response
- #22 – You Spin Me Right Round (for Earth Day)
- #21 – Surface Tension
- #20 – Lip Twitch (So Sayeth Dr. Google)
- #19 – Morning Respite from the Fray
- #18 – One of a Thousand Lives
- #17 – God: The Anthropocene Interview, Part I
- #16 – On Easter
- #15 – Ghosts
- #14 – don’t save me from this morning
- #13 – Dream 4.13.22
- #12 – Honest Senryū
- #11 – Not Today.
- Huzzah! Broken Pencil!
- #10 – Meant to Shine
- #9 – Protego Totalum
- #8 – Overnight
- #7 – The Muses Kept Knocking
- #6 – Untethered
- #5 – Lost Pleasures
- #4 – Screen Porch Solo
- #3 – Look, up in the sky…
- #2 – Enchantress
- #1 – The Science of Women
- WWW Wednesday (March 30)
- In Which Alice Finds Rabbit
- Chaos Theory
- The Fabric of Our Lives
- It’s a Collaborative Effort, Really
- Random Acts of Writing Turns 12
- Storykeeper
- Making Snow
- SPRING 2022: No Other Choice
- A Tale of Two Stories in Guilford, CT
- Sudden Death
- Truth Bears Out
- A Hemlock Story
- February 12: BOOK SIGNING & ART EXHIBIT
- Author reaches out to old love online, writes about it in new novel
- Everyone Needs a Guide
- Rest Stop, Mile Marker 173
- WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE: A SORT-OF LOVE STORY, A New Book by Jen Payne
- New Book! Save the Date!
- Donut Girl
- Future Perfect
- Zoom in!
- Forest Fellow
- A Good New Year
- My Year in Books
- MANIFEST (zine): Zoom Zoom Zoom!
- Christmas Wonder
- An Odd Courting
- Kismet
- Missing Iguana
- Discarded
- Canal Street Epiphany
- Sometimes Hearts Need Time to Catch Up
- Oxymorons
- Creativity Makes a Great Gift!
- Star-crossed
- Memory Vended
- Silly is as Silly Does
- Hindsight is 2020
- SEEN: THE ZINE SCENE
- MANIFEST (zine) – A Quarantine Zine
- Patience
- Soggy Poems & Dead Ends
- We’ll have memories for company, long after the songs are gone
- The Latest News Zine
- What is the force that moves us? Perhaps it’s music?
- MANIFEST (zine): Divine Intervention
- Every body wants to be a cat…sing along!
- MANIFEST (zine): Cat Lady Confessions
- MANIFEST (zine)…It’s About Time
- The Sound of Crickets
- WHAT’S THAT? Manifest (zine): Crickets
- If you are a dreamer, come in…
- Hold-in-Your-Hand Art Installation
- What is MANIFEST (zine)?
- Happy Birthday, MANIFEST (zine)!
- Happy International Zine Month 2021!
- Within Her Confines
- Sunday Morning
- The Messy Business of Creating
- Life Lessons from Dad
- Finding Leonard Cohen down a Rabbit Hole
- The Healing Process
- NEW! Manifest (zine): Crickets
- Spinning Jenny
- Pieces of Thought
- MANIFEST (zine): What’s Old, What’s New, What’s Coming
- 9 – Seven Degrees of an Active Shooter
- 8 – Night Music
- 7 – Mindfulness
- 6 – Apple of Discord
- 5 – Can You Hear Me Now?
- 4 – Coyote Vision
- 3 – The Wrong Impression
- 2 – I prayed he left more than a spoon
- 1 – Morning Haiku
- April Is National Poetry Month!
- The S.S. (Space Ship) Pussiewillow II
- MANIFEST (zine): It’s About Time
- Alternate Ending
- Foodie Friday: Marmalade Haddock
- Memoir
- Connecticut Poets Included in New Anthology of Poems
- Gotta Create! Gotta Celebrate!
- Identity Theft
- Transubstantiation
- Suggested Title: Tenacious
- Waning Crescent
- Dance! I say. Dance!
- Foodie Friday: 2-Ingredient Pancakes
- Adjourned
- MANIFEST (zine): Cat Lady Confessions
- This Long Winter Weekend: What are you reading?
- Mea Culpa
- Encroachment
- MANIFEST (zine): Divine Intervention
- Cat Lady Confessions
- January 20, 2020
- In a hopeful, albeit futile, attempt to control the fates of 2021…
- A Common Heart Beats in All of Us
- What Treasures Await?
- Sanderlings
- My Year in Books 2020
- A Holiday Wish
- Creative Holiday Gift Ideas
- Because Things Grow: Hope
- Waiting
- Sun Rise
- VIDEO: Chikmedia Holiday Gift Guide
- An Interview with MANIFEST (zine)
- Coin-Operated Press Christmas Zine Fair
- Foodie Friday: Le Pain Aux Raisins
- MANIFEST (zine): Cat Lady Confessions
- When the rain, rain, rain came down, down, down
- This Thanks Giving
- Chikmedia Holiday Gift Guide
- There’s Something Greater
- What can hibernating bears teach humans?
- Whatcha Readin’?
- Birdsong on November 5, 2020
- Gratitude
- Bwah Ha Ha Ha – Flossers in the Wild!
- Even Now: The Solace of Nature
- Chores
- A Good Traveling Companion for 2020
- Dragon Dawn
- Wednesday
- Evidence of Flossing: The Movie
- Welcome Books!
- Our Sad Riddle
- Foodie Friday: Sesame Tamari Sauce
- A Gettysburg Address
- To Reconnect with Nature is Certain Cure
- Found Poem: Eau de Parfum
- When it’s so hard to see…
- Measuring Water by Sound
- An Open Letter to My Family about the Election
- Foodie Friday: Meatball Ragout with Swiss Chard
- It’s the Weekend!
- Friends 2020
- And so it goes.
- Projecting
- The View From Here: August 31
- Support A Place Called Hope, Birds of Prey Rehabilitation & Education Center
- Foodie Friday: Miso Corn Sauté
- New Leaf
- Sims 2020
- 11 Years and Counting
- What the World Needs Now is a Little Freddie Mercury
- Foodie Friday: Pissaladière
- Shop ‘til you drop…with consequences
- Poetry is…
- Funny, sad, sexy, maddening…
- Found Senryū
- Sunday Reading
- July 2020
- Dream 072220
- What is life without music?
- Memoir
- MANIFEST (zine): Divine Intervention
- Everything is connected…
- Happy International Zine Month
- Reading Mary Oliver in a Pandemic
- Coping with the Unexpected
- The Afghan
- Discover the Possibility of Divine Connection
- Summer 2020
- Vision’s Hard to Come By when It’s 2020
- A Naturalist’s Journal of Connections
- Flexible Flyer
- Thursday Rain
- Flossers in the Wild!
- Heist
- Ever Effervescent
- Would God floss? Do spiders sing? Can you see the Universe in your reflection?
- A Pandemic Reflection
- Oh for this company of a cat
- Weighing My Options
- Road Trip Big Bend: Coda
- Road Trip Big Bend: Playlist
- Road Trip Big Bend: This one time…in Mexico
- Reflections on Nature, Life, Breath, Balance, Spirit
- Road Trip Big Bend: El Camino Del Rio
- Road Trip Big Bend: It’s a Ghost Town
- Road Trip Big Bend: Mavericks
- Road Trip Big Bend: West Texas Women
- Road Trip Big Bend: Scenic Drive
- Road Trip Big Bend: Big Bend National Park
- Road Trip Big Bend: The Gage
- Love Poems to the Something Greater within All of Us
- Road Trip Big Bend: Marathon, Texas
- Road Trip Big Bend: Austin to Marathon
- What He Said
- In Which Emily Got Baked and More…
- Retreat by Proxy
- 30 – It’s a Hell of a Town
- 29 – Getting Out
- Finding the Solace of Nature
- 28 – There was something I wanted to say but…
- 27 – Little Blessings
- 26 – Trickster Dreams
- 25 – Feather Juggler
- Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt
- 24 – How Do You Know a Heart
- 23 – Love thy neighbor as thyself
- 22 – Earth Day 2020
- 21 – The Logic of Greed
- 20 – Monday Haiku
- 19 – Not much between despair and ecstasy
- 18 – First Teacher
- The Big Picture
- 17 – Moonshadow
- 16 – Pandemic Perspective
- Poet Jen Payne
- 15 – Quit Giving Me Gray Hair
- 14 – Pandemic Mechanics
- 13 – Storm in a Pandemic
- 12 – Grave Tenders
- 11 – 2 Cups: An Ode to Bisquick
- 10 – Like Tinnitus
- 9 – Mind’s Eye
- 8 – Dream’s Landscape
- 7 – Imposter Poet
- 6 – Star Child
- You are braver than you believe & stronger than you seem…
- 5 – Sunday Haiku
- 4 – Pandemic Pause
- 3 – Useful
- 2 – Soap
- 1 – Level Up!
- It’s National Poetry Month!
- Blessing Shout Out!
- Finding Inspiration
- Calm Down
- Countdown to NaPoWriMo!
- Spring 2020 Haiku
- Coping in Our Genes
- Coping Tools
- Gratitude
- Let Go
- Settle
- Spring Comes No Matter
- Gotta!
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