Our Bodies Remember the Bodies

ObservationsJena SchwartzSeptember 14, 2022walking, Memory, ancestorsComment

Thin Skin

Real LifeJena SchwartzJune 2, 2022Memoir, memoir, Memory, memory, women's bodies, birth, eating disorder, body image Comments

All Those Years {a poem}

And how all of those years slowly delivered me to this year…

PoetryJena SchwartzJanuary 18, 2022MemoryComment

The Arch: A Guest Post in Memory of Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Guest PostJena SchwartzJanuary 5, 2022Memory, Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Beverly Harris-Schenz Comments

Hint & Halo

PoetryJena SchwartzDecember 20, 2021poems, curly hair, Memory, agingComment

All the Way Here

Why bother writing if you’re not writing something? It’s a fair question.

Real LifeJena SchwartzNovember 5, 2019writing practice, writing, memory, Susan Straight, piano lessons, In the Country of Women, memoir, Mindfulness, Memory Comments

Breathe Easy

What do I want to feed my imagination? Now that feels like a question worth spending time with.

ObservationsJena SchwartzJune 9, 2019Time, Memory, Imagination, Healing, personal growth, coming out, Grief, Marriage, remarriage Comment

Israel: From Imagination to Reality

I listened to all of it, rapt, attentive, a sponge, ears open, heart open, receptive, learning, discerning, knowing that we would have a completely different experience with a different guide, a different perspective and history.

Jewish LifeJena SchwartzJune 6, 2019Israel, Travel, Travel Writing, Memoir, Belonging, Jewish, Jewish Mysticism, Middle East, Palestine, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Kotel, Western Wall, Tzfat, Negev, Holocaust, Memory, Home, Homecoming, Yehuda Mahane, Dead Sea, Mediterranean, Kibbutz, Zionism, Sabra Comment

I Want to Live the Stories

I want to live the stories, not just remember them.

Real LifeJena SchwartzApril 21, 2019motherhood, Time, Memory, gratitude, storiesComment

Loneliness and the Really Tiny Gang

We might still be alone in some ways, but alone is not the same as isolated. Alone is not the same as hiding. Alone is not the same as lonely.

ObservationsJena SchwartzMarch 18, 2019Memory, loneliness, teenagers, walking, writing practice, Being present, bulimia, addiction, friendship, growing up, memoir Comments

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