By Jenny Milchman We have many metaphors about our feathered friends in the English language (and likely plenty of other languages of which I am woefully ignorant). Two are particularly relevant to me right now. Birds leaving the next nest. [I'm leaving my typo because it's just so apt. Positively...
HOW TO BE A GOOD VACATIONER
By Jenny Milchman It’s summertime, and for a lot of us that means vacations. The lucky of us, right? More and more lately, I’ve been feeling how important it is not to take anything for granted, from small things—a spring flock of turkey babies in our meadow—to big, like my kids getting into...
HOW TO MAKE A HUGE DECISION
By Jenny Milchman For those of us who are parents of a certain age and stage, it’s college decision season. The months—years—maybe as much as a decade plus of hard academic work that our kids (and we!) have put in is coming to fruition. By this point in the spring, acceptances, spots on waitlists,...
A BLOOMING BOUQUET OF READS
By Jenny Milchman No matter what the groundhog reported, it’s still blissfully chilly where I live, the ground as hard as iron and snow on all the peaks (even though we had to do without enough of the white stuff down at lower elevation). You’re probably getting the idea that I absolutely...
RESOLUTIONS FOR READERS & WRITERS
By Jenny Milchman It’s that time of year again when a brand new shiny four digit number is nigh. You know what that means—we’re about to start vowing to do all sorts of crazy sh—um, stuff—like cut out desserts/carbs/food or go to the gym four times a day or not curse the guy who cuts us off at the...
DUN, DUN, DUN, DUN…DEADLINE!
By Jenny Milchman When Steven Spielberg’s film version of Peter Benchley’s blockbuster Jaws came out, it furthered the reach of the novel, spawned (ha, get it, a fish reference?) a whole school of (I can keep going) sometimes great, sometimes comical derivations that continue to this day (I’m...
CAR-SCHOOLING: Life Lessons & Tips from the Road
By Jenny Milchman When my first novel came out, my husband and I did the next logical thing. Rented out our house, traded in two cars for an SUV that could handle Denver in February, and took our kids out of first and third grades to set out on what Shelf Awareness called the world’s longest book...
MOTHER’S DAY IS NEXT MONTH
By Jenny Milchman And do I have some books for you! Or for a mother in your life, or someone you think of as a mother, or someone who has or once had a mother—and I could go on. Point being that every one of us has been touched in some way by the concept of motherhood, whether in real life or...
A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN
You Need a You Space By Jenny Milchman They say the happiest kind of actor is a working actor, and that’s true of writers too. Lately I’ve begun to think that it may be true of all people, period. Sigmund Freud, albeit he’s be cancelled for a lot of things circa today, got it right when he said...
JUSTICE IS SERVED
By Jenny Milchman Five Triumphant Thrillers As a five-foot, zero-inch woman, I can't exactly kill a bad guy with my bare hands like Reacher. So I right wrongs in my books, and love authors who do as well. Here's five triumphant thrillers I'd highly recommend. The School for Good Mothers by...