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…·8 min read·Mar 19, 2021--1--1
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…·4 min read·Mar 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…·3 min read·Mar 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…·3 min read·Mar 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…·5 min read·Apr 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…·11 min read·Nov 24, 2019----
Jennifer R BaumerMeditating with My Cat, for Fun and StressSo, this didn’t work.·5 min read·Jun 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…·6 min read·May 16, 2019----
Jennifer R BaumerReflections on a Munchausen’s by Proxy Childhood, Part 4Factitious disorder that’s not imposed on another·10 min read·Mar 21, 2019--1--1
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…·7 min read·Mar 21, 2019----