Jennifer R BaumerCreativity vs. COVIDI went looking for an answer to the question of why the pandemic and quarantine has affected so many artists — in my world, mostly I mean…Mar 19, 20211Mar 19, 20211
Jennifer R BaumerAt the crossroads of Creativity & ClutterAn article on the APA site, A messy desk encourages a creative mind, study finds, written in 2013, describes an experiment in which people…Mar 18, 2021Mar 18, 2021
Jennifer R BaumerAnd then the monster ate the princessThe lamp light in the living room of the Santa Monica apartment was low. My grandfather’s memorial proved more a celebration of his life…Mar 17, 2021Mar 17, 2021
Jennifer R BaumerIt’s spring.I know this because it’s freezing cold at the top of Reno’s North Valleys. The high today was 37F. The sun comes and goes, teasing. The…Mar 16, 2021Mar 16, 2021
Jennifer R BaumerStress baking and quarantining: A sweet wedding anniversaryMy husband and I celebrated our anniversary during this weird spring of shelter in place and stores sold out of flour. It wasn’t that much…Apr 18, 2020Apr 18, 2020
Jennifer R BaumerWhy I left an online freelancing agencyI’ve been a freelance writer for a lot of years, starting with magazines I was steered to by the writers’ group I was involved with and…Nov 24, 2019Nov 24, 2019
Jennifer R BaumerMeditating with My Cat, for Fun and StressSo, this didn’t work.Jun 19, 2019Jun 19, 2019
Jennifer R BaumerStressed? Bake it off — the continuing popularity of stress bakingWhatever your politics, let’s just note that the number of people doing something called stress baking — and experiencing stress in…May 16, 2019May 16, 2019
Jennifer R BaumerReflections on a Munchausen’s by Proxy Childhood, Part 4Factitious disorder that’s not imposed on anotherMar 21, 20191Mar 21, 20191
Jennifer R BaumerReflections on a Munchausen’s by Proxy Childhood, Part 3My senior year of high school I developed a throat infection. It was hard to tell, because it made my head ache (but so did the lights in…Mar 21, 2019Mar 21, 2019
