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Bright spots in spring

June 29, 2019 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Yoga on the Mall 2019 polaroid Jessica Claire Haney

Before the long days of summer parenting melt my brain, I want to capture some of the good that happened this spring. I wrote in late April about what life looked like in the first two months of my separation from my husband. Daily journaling for myself has become very important, but time capsules captured…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Featured, Holistic Health, The Arts Tagged With: art, community, mindfulness, music, spring, writing, yoga

Why didn’t I think of that? Grandma saves 1/72 of the day!

November 10, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

It might be said that I had a perfectly fine day, parenting the children alone from 9 to 5 on a Sunday. Except that I appear to have gained 5 pounds from stress-eating and might have let my children’s eyeballs get singed by TV and computer screens. At least it was from gorging on Mr….

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Filed Under: Featured, Healthy Eating, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: art, family, lessons, parenting, priorities, relationships, seasons

How to do only one thing at a time: a work in progress

October 25, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I’m a lucky woman. I get to do a lot of cool things. This morning, I got to take my kids to their great public school, an Expeditionary Learning school, where children start every day Monday through Thursday with a morning meeting and start every Friday with a community meeting. I love that they see…

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Filed Under: Featured, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: art, Femworking, marriage, priorities, relationships

How would you slant light?

November 23, 2012 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Blank canvas If you had the chance to paint the sky, how would you do it? Would your brush be brash and full of color, from orange through pink up to early-morning blue? Or would you go for the sunset, dimming down from dark to the last warmth of sinking light? Maybe you would deeply…

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Filed Under: The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: art, beauty, inspiration, NaBloPoMo, nature, poetry

Rediscovering play

November 9, 2012 by Jessica Leave a Comment

This night, the children needed an extra dose of essential oil and a second tuck-in, and my house and husband need some serious love. So here we have a photo from my son’s school, one of the preschool classes, and the playfulness I loved in these paintings. Reminders To create simply for the sake of…

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Filed Under: The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: art, beauty, creativity, joy, NaBloPoMo, painting, poetry

Art as birth activism

October 10, 2009 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I’ve known artist Jessica Clements for a while, but it was a thrill this week to attend the symposium she organized and to see her MFA thesis exhibit of birth paintings on the campus of George Mason University, right in the middle of the Johnson Student Center. Talk about bringing art and activism to the…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, The Arts Tagged With: art, body, feminism, media, working mother

Wanna take pretty pictures

March 30, 2009 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I’ve been saying lately that I want to take a photography class before I turn 40. Well, I’ve got less than four years to do that now. I’m not sure how it will fit in to everything else I want to do, but I do want to learn how to capture things that I think…

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Filed Under: The Arts Tagged With: art, priorities

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