Jen Koch

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  • I Live Here

    I Live Here

    It’s been a fulfilling Saturday, after a very long pair of weeks. I am on my porch right now – our porch – sipping at the little cooled coffee left in mug while I listen to the neighborhood. There’s the constant bass thrum of traffic. Some of the rumbling comes as far off as the Read more

  • Practice Today

    Practice Today

    Your feet are on the track today. Your brush is in the paint this moment. Your hands are on the keyboard right now. You’re practicing. So practice now. Read more

  • New Gig

    My first book review – of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and a Culture in Crisis – has been published in The Hawk Eye, my local newspaper! You can read an excerpt of it here.  I’ll be writing periodically for The Weekly Read in the future. I’m so excited! Read more

  • Living With Anxiety Brain

    Living With Anxiety Brain

    I can’t look at death and say Yeah But Not Me anymore. I CAN say Yeah But Not Yet. Read more

  • Locked Out

    Locked Out

    I yell at horror movies. Not scream. Yell. Like an exasperated, uncertified life coach. The main characters in typical jump scare-peppered torture porn are not life choice role models. I ask them why they’re not calling Triple A about that cut fan belt after their girlfriend just tumbled into the pool of decaying roadkill. I suggest they stay Read more

  • February

    February

    The dye washes out of reality in an Iowa February. According to weather experts, the worst part of winter is the last week of December, and the first weeks of January. That certainly accounts for frigid weather and hip-deep snow, but not much else. February takes January’s misery into itself, and compounds it. The product Read more