javajennifer admins | January 30, 2008
Match.com has launched their 2008 campaign. Match.com is like a trip to Wal-Mart. When you go to Wal-Mart, you might get what you need but you’ll feel a little dirty about it. I should know. It’s now been 6 months since my 2 month foray into on-line dating. And I’m starting to think that maybe, [...]
javajennifer admins | January 30, 2008
I haven’t been able to get my act together today. Everything started off fine- and still is- I’m just thoroughly unmotivated. My laptop faces a courtyard and it’s a windy, blustery day getting colder but with a bright blue sky. The wind will no doubt make the news tonight as some poor cameraman shoots stock [...]
javajennifer admins | January 29, 2008
It’s one thing to be famous outright but another altogether to lend your fame to further a cause. We see it most often when celebrities attach themselves to certain charities or in the instance of Bill and Melinda Gates create an enormous foundation in their namesake. When Oprah lent her name and considerable credibility in [...]
javajennifer admins | January 23, 2008
There’s an old cliché that in time, we all become our mother. To some that would be a fate worse than death. For me, I find that in the ways I become like my mom, I am grateful for. My mother has been a vegetarian for over 10 years which took her already extraordinary [...]
javajennifer admins | January 20, 2008
Every time my niece (who isn’t really) declares with certainty that she’ll never get married, I get incredibly sad. Her mother and father who I refer to in this blog as my aunt and uncle, but who aren’t really, have been married for at least 23 years. LizBeth has no reason, none that I can [...]
javajennifer admins | January 18, 2008
7 hours and 6 vodka gimlets later (I know, I know) I made it to Tampa. But not without making out with a guy I met in the airport lounge.
javajennifer admins | January 17, 2008
The loneliest place I know is the United airport lounge in terminal B at Chicago’s O’Hare where I’ve logged a considerable amount of time over the past 12 months. I’m here enough that the two Russian women who share the bar duties both know me and let me run a tab which in the lame [...]
javajennifer admins | January 17, 2008
I didn’t realize it at the time, but I’ve had a sales career since the age of 15 when I took a job at a toy store in an affluent part of town. I was paid hourly (minimum wage was I think $3.35/ hour) and didn’t get a commission or bonus but I was very [...]
javajennifer admins | January 16, 2008
I’m back in Chicago and this time am staying at the Hard Rock Hotel on the 23rdfloor. My view is spectacular but my room in battle-ship grey with dim lights, a picture of The Beatles in the bathroom and –get this- a floor to ceiling mirror directly in front of the bed. In a full [...]
javajennifer admins | January 13, 2008
In order to best understand the nature of hope, you need look no farther than Sunday morning television, though not in the form of Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyers or some other televangelist. I’m speaking of the Sunday morning infomercial. Running an innocent 30 minutes in length it is sometimes possible to watch them end to [...]
