Jenni is assistant editor and a staff writer for The Curator, and editor of the Art House America Blog. She is also a freelance writer and homemaker, inspired by "the quotidian mysteries," especially laundry and liturgy. She left college and spent five years working for an independent music company. That decision worked out fairly well, but she might finish at The University of Houston one of these days. Her writing thus far includes Wunderkammer, Comment, The Sustainable Scoop, the Art House America Blog, and her personal blogs — Just Jenni and Dreams of Genevieve.
Jenni and her drummer-husband, Johnny, work from their suburban home, take long walks around their 'hood, and supervise two cats. Jenni lives for creative outings in the heart of her city such as The Menil, Indian food, bookstores, and coffee shops. More housework would be accomplished if it weren't for the fact that books, periodicals, coffee, tea, whiskey, music, films, birds, and Etsy occupy her thoughts to the point of distraction.
How good it is to heal each other, bring ceremony into our homes, employ the art of waiting, share a cup, and take a drink ourselves, just for the sheer pleasure of a spot of tea.
I live for good snail mail days. I either rush out to the mailbox when I hear the mail truck scoot away, or bat my eyelashes and lazily ask of my husband (headed out to a drum gig or errand), “Will you puh-lease check the mail? If there’s anything fun, will you bring it inside?” [...]
Jenni Simmons reflects on a week at Image Journal’s Glen Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Now I ask you, would you hear a story like that just listening to a CD? I think not.
An interview with novelist Jeffrey Overstreet, whose next book, Raven’s Ladder will be released on February 16.
Photographs of our possessions and domestic patterns can be portraits, just like the photographs of our faces.
Pete Peterson’s new book is wonderfully imaginative – both in its storytelling, and in its publication.
Annie Dillard’s classic Pilgrim at Tinker Creek inspires a budding writer to really, truly see.
One couple’s liturgy of the neighborhood – in Houston.