Jennifer M. Baldwin's Blog, page 5

Caesar’s Triumph

We started watching Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar today in my AP Lang class. I didn’t feel like teaching. Thinking about the play, the class, being around other people, all of it made me sick. I wanted to crawl into my Bandcamp app and listen to midwestern alternative rock for the rest of my life. I didn’t […]

I Did My Part. We had a good run, America.

“Rule 2: General Duties of a Student: Pull Everything Out of Your Teacher: Pull Everything Out of Your Fellow Students”

Who are my teachers? Who are my fellow students? Finding teachers (recognizing them, really) wasn’t too hard, but this Rule also mentions fellow students and that was a much harder find. Who exactly are my fellow students? Without being enrolled in a school or class, I’m kinda just on my own. My teachers are the […]

“Rule 1: Find a Place You Trust and Then Try Trusting It for a While”

This is the first rule of the Immaculate Heart College Art Department under the direction of Sr. Corita Kent. I’ve decided to take one rule each week (hopefully) and try to live it out as fully as possible (while also continuing to live out the previous weeks’ rules). Rule #1 is to find a place […]

Draw or Make Something Every Day (in September)

This was an idea my husband proposed today, so we’re getting a one-day-late start to the challenge, but he suggested that everyone in our household (aka me, him, and the kids) should try to make or draw something every day this month. (If we miss a day, we can do multiple things in a day […]

Birthday Comics

Pocket Notebook

I keep a writer’s notebook, and since I also carry a backpack with me most places, I used to take the WNB with me everywhere. But honestly, I hardly ever took the full-sized notebook out in public and wrote in it. Just too unwieldy. I like the idea of having one notebook where I keep […]

It Came from the Game Closet: Hobbit Tales from the Green Dragon Inn

I teased this ages ago, but it’s finally here. The first installment of what I hope to be a regular series on the blog: “It Came from the Game Closet.” We have this closet, you see. It is in our living room, and it is quite tall, and it is filled with games. Stuffed. Bursting. […]

Input Update 7/7/2024

Reading: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt Also Reading: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake Also Also Reading: Dragon Wing (the Death Gate Cycle vol. 1) by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Also Also Also Reading: Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky Drinking: Coffee out of a Mesiree mug

Dear Mom, the mother in the story is not you (but maybe…)

Avalon Summer is somewhat based on my real childhood, especially in the details of the setting, which is basically my grandparents’ home in Michigan. And yes, the main character, Sarah, is similar to ten-year-old me. And yes, there are other characters who have some basis in real people from my childhood. But no, it’s not […]