Author: Jocelyn

  • Decades: Smokey, Age 67

    Decades: Smokey, Age 67

    Smokey is a retired registered nurse who spent most of his career helping children and teens with mental health and chemical abuse issues. Retirement has freed him to restore cars, play with electronics, and attack projects long neglected.     1. Think of a specific time you felt joy. What was going on, and why were […]

  • Decades: Andus, Age 57

    Decades: Andus, Age 57

    Andus is a cultural anthropologist who, after living in Turkey for sixteen years, has returned to his native Germany, where he is restoring an old half-timber house and watchtower in the city walls of Michelstadt.     Think of a specific time you felt joy. What was going on, and why were you so happy […]

  • Decades: Koji, Age 46

    Decades: Koji, Age 46

    Born in Japan, Koji lives in New York City and manages copyrights for one of the largest musical theater catalogs in the world. [aesop_character img=”http://omightycrisis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/koji.jpg” name=”Koji” caption=”Koji was born in 1969, when Hirohito was the emperor of Japan, the Sumitomo Bank introduced Japan’s first ATM machine, and figure skater Midori Ito was born. As well, […]

  • Decades: Marta, Age 37

    Decades: Marta, Age 37

    Marta is a mother and writer living in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.     Think of a specific time you felt joy. What was going on, and why were you so happy in that moment? This gets me back seven years, to the day I got the news the script I was developing at the time […]

  • Decades: Anna, Age 25

    Decades: Anna, Age 25

    Anna lives in Colorado, where she teaches kindergarten.     1. Think of a specific time you felt joy. What was going on, and why were you so happy in that moment? I get that warm, fuzzy feeling of joy frequently. As a kindergarten teacher, my students say and do some of the sweetest things. […]

  • Decades: Milo & Cyrus, on the Cusp of 15

    Decades: Milo & Cyrus, on the Cusp of 15

    In the ninth grade, Cyrus and Milo are twins who live in Massachusetts.       1. Think of a specific time you felt joy. What was going on, and why were you so happy in that moment? This spring I was in a musical for my school, and I had a solo at the […]

  • Decades: Emma, Age 10

    Decades: Emma, Age 10

    For the next few weeks, I’ll be running a series of blog posts, each one featuring a representative from a different decade of life. Each subject will respond to the same five questions. As readers, we get to consider in which ways the answers differ due to age and in which ways they differ due […]

  • Locker Wars

    Locker Wars

    I walk into the locker room at the Y, glad that the hour for reading Us Weekly while fiddling with the controls of a Stairmaster is upon me. How lucky a gal am I, I muse, to be able to bring my toys to a place where I pay money to manufacture difficulty for myself? Wondering if […]

  • Dump It

    Dump It

    She changed me. Her name is Keri, and although she started out as a student in a few of my classes, she ended up becoming a friend for life, someone whose innate light defeated the chilling darkness of her early years. Keri was treated as harshly as a person can be. Yet when I think of her, […]

  • I’m Glad That’s Over

    I’m Glad That’s Over

      Sometimes I get ranty on my students. This happens, in particular, when they kvetch about having to take classes that are “stupid” because some courses “don’t have anything to do with what I’m going into.” Of course, were these students expressing their frustrations at the keyboard, that sentiment would read “tehy are stuppid cause they dont […]