Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Nov 24, 2009, 11:07 am
I am headed to New York City today. When I was younger, I believed I'd make New York City my home. Walking down the streets a couple of years ago, a blast of hot air blew up from a subway grate ...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Nov 23, 2009, 6:00 am
Thanksgiving is upon us, and over the next couple of days, friends and family may be descending upon your home (or perhaps you are the friend or family on the descent.). This can be a stressful time ...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Nov 20, 2009, 10:58 am
So, I've seen this a couple of times in Starbucks: The sticker's largest words are Insulated and Isolation. Taken on their own, I don't suppose there is anything worth cocking a brow at.....
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Nov 19, 2009, 1:48 pm

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Nov 17, 2009, 9:52 am
she just got real cold allsuvasudden. she wont talk 2 me or evin look over here. i asked her what wuz wrong and she was all like i wasnt in the room. like she just looked right through me. i bet it...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Nov 16, 2009, 3:31 pm
That movie wasn't so great after all. The one with the guy and that one girl from the other movie. It was on some website. I used to think it was the funniest thing I had ever seen. I might have g...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Nov 13, 2009, 12:58 pm

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Nov 12, 2009, 9:31 am
1. There are names that I am always terrified I will get wrong: Dianne/Dianna Kristen/Kirsten No matter how well I know the person, no matter for how long, every time I utter her name, the split se...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Nov 10, 2009, 9:31 am
Tuesday is working the register at Walgreens. The store is nearly deserted, and only the strains of Extreme's "More than Words" trickle into the fog of your early morning consciousness. You reac...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Nov 9, 2009, 3:33 pm
"Every time you sniff and say somebody has 'too much free time,' the part of you that used to love making things for pure joy dies a little."- Merlin Mann When I was little, I wanted to be a S...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Nov 5, 2009, 10:20 am

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Nov 4, 2009, 2:48 pm
In my dream the other night, I tried to write poem to you or maybe it was about you, to tell you that I knew how it was all going to end. It started as I was talking in my sleep, and woke you up. I...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Nov 3, 2009, 1:37 pm
What you don't know about Asperger's is a lot. Just the staticky fragments from a Dateline two nights ago, filtered through the parents' caustic whispers. Both caught your vague interest...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Oct 29, 2009, 10:19 am

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Oct 26, 2009, 12:25 pm
I have been a little on the lazy, busy, don't-feel-like-it kick recently, which I think is pretty normal for anyone. We can all forgive ourselves for that. However... What begins as a few days ...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Oct 20, 2009, 2:44 pm
I’ve been tapping myself on my own shoulder for a while now, whispering with a casual wave at my office door, “You know, whenever you get a minute…if we could talk about a couple of things- noth...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Oct 15, 2009, 3:15 pm
Posting here may be of the more "off and on" type until next week. I am wading through mid-terms and have very little elective thinking space in my brain. So until I do, here is a(n?) haiku: WTF. ...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Oct 13, 2009, 4:08 pm
This is one of those days I could easily forget. Nothing exciting happened. The weather isn't terrible, in fact, it's quite manageable. There are no rueful misjudgments. No extraordinary ...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Oct 12, 2009, 3:12 pm

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Oct 2, 2009, 10:28 am
Have you eve seen those cheeky web pages that say: Thank you. Thank you so much for reminding that there is an outside world, with your irreverent condescension. How edgy. I'm laughing so har...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Oct 1, 2009, 3:11 pm
1 (and only one today). Things I have found enormously unhelpful this week: Online Dream Dictionaries Whole Foods My Will Power The CTA The Elevator in My Building Pennies Light Beer My Egg Timer
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Sep 30, 2009, 4:54 pm

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Sep 29, 2009, 10:21 am
The Monday after a slumber party is an awful gauntlet to navigate. All concerned parties arrive in the linoleumed halls of the 7th grade, wary and all too knowing. The Saturday prior was likely a bir...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Sep 25, 2009, 10:29 am

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Sep 24, 2009, 8:28 am
Tonight I open a show at Trap Door Theatre. I'm actually in it. It's been a while since I was in something on stage that didn't involve white face. Photo by Fuzzy Gerdes Ever since I w...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Sep 23, 2009, 9:05 am
A while back, in a post I cannot find, I listed a few guilty pleasure foods. To wit: Pork Rinds Beef Jerky Deviled Ham (Not SPAM. I want to be very clear about that.) (Looking at this list it all ...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Sep 22, 2009, 9:34 am
Tuesday didn't mail the Netflix like he said he would. Tuesday said said she'd make coffee but she didn't and now you have to go to work without caffeine. Tuesday pushed in front of you ...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Sep 21, 2009, 10:51 am

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Sep 18, 2009, 11:16 am
I have no idea what this is for, or what it will turn into. It's just a scene I started working my way through - but obviously it is still in its pupa stage. One day it will turn into a beautifu...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Sep 17, 2009, 1:27 am
1. All over the city sidewalks you can see the ghosts of tiny disasters. Nothing too radical or tectonic. Just some evidence left behind that someone was recently disappointed. Or confused. (Ever...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Sep 16, 2009, 1:24 am

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Sep 15, 2009, 1:50 am
Rice Krispies are not a good hand-held cereal. There are some breakfast cereals that can translate from milk-in-bowl to dry-in-hand with ease. Life Cereal, Frosted Flakes, Frosted Shredded Wheat an...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Sep 14, 2009, 3:57 pm
1. This morning a woman opened the door of a cab street-side, and another car plowed into it, losing its side mirror. She stepped from the car, confusion all over her face, but tinged with a sense o...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Sep 11, 2009, 10:55 am

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Sep 9, 2009, 1:37 pm
I'm not sure I like what is happening, whatever it is, but I'm pretty sure the thing will pass, eventually. If I knew what it was, I would like it better. Or maybe I wouldn't. I probabl...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Sep 8, 2009, 12:18 pm
It’s 1:00am. Your eyes bat open and your brain tries to wade through the waters of sleep onto sandy shore. Your body is covered in sweat (hadn’t it been cool when you went to bed? You even put ...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Sep 4, 2009, 1:28 pm
I wrote this piece about a year and a half ago. It's based on the painting "Night Windows" by Edward Hopper. This is a scene I have mulled over several times, trying to get it to work. I haven&...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Sep 3, 2009, 1:45 am
Recently, I discovered a forgotten note to myself. It was written in the notes section of a palm pilot (God. Remember those? It was like revisiting an Apple IIe.) and it read: Why do I keep eating...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Aug 31, 2009, 6:48 pm
About a year ago I wrote an entry entitled Poetry is for Suckers. At the time I was undergoing an enormous shift in my life and had come upon a terrible notion: The sinking feeling that something we h...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Aug 31, 2009, 12:41 pm

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Aug 28, 2009, 12:58 pm
So, I'm sharing this with you. A friend of mine posted this on Facebook and I don't think I'll ever be the same. You can beat me up in an alley later. (And seriously, watch to the end.)
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Aug 27, 2009, 1:36 am
... in the skull. Someone said that Sense of Humor is a binder for these guys, but, I dunno. I think it rolled off under the couch or something. Just, please, quit looking at me with the "I told y...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Aug 26, 2009, 11:00 am
I've always been fascinated by the poetic names we give groups of animals. Terms like a School of Fish or a Herd of Cattle are pretty common, but what about a Murder of Crows? Or a Parliament of...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Aug 25, 2009, 12:45 pm
First Tuesday after a Vacation wants to show you her Vacation pictures. You know this because it is just the two of you in the office. The Higher Ups have gone for a long office lunch and left the Lo...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Aug 24, 2009, 3:22 pm

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Aug 17, 2009, 3:26 pm
In a couple of days I will be taking a trip to the beach with my family. It's a trip they take every year, but last year was the first time I joined them. Many of my first posts are from there. ...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Aug 14, 2009, 8:17 am
One year ago today, I began my blog here. What. The. Crap. It feels like a week. It feels like ten years. What to say when milestones like this arrive? How emotional should I get? Should I cry o...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Aug 12, 2009, 12:19 pm

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