About Jen

What to say about me? If I have learned one thing about myself this year, it is that life is so much more about the journey then a destination. I’ve always believed that, but not fully-now I see that everything changes and you have to be a part of that change to be a part of your life. 

I recently read a book that was written in verse and the first poem pretty much describes how I look at this blog. My journey, my introduction.  It hasn’t been pretty and I can safely say I lost myself. The person before you is on her way back from this:

Introduction

So you want to know all

about me. Who

                                                I am.

What chance meeting of

brush and canvas painted

                                                the face

you see? What made

me despise the girl

                                                in the mirror

enough to transform her,

turn her into a stranger,

                                                only not.

So you want to hear

the whole story, Why

                                                I swerved

off the high road,

hard left to nowhere,

                                                recklessly

indifferent to those

coughing my dust,

                                                picked up speed

no limits, no top end,

just a high velocity rush

                                                to madness.

~Ellen Hopkins