Jennifer Briggs

It was a very cold week, but luckily the girls’ schools did not call for any delays. I enjoyed reading while snuggled under blankets, especially the electric throw that my mom gave me as an early birthday present. The place I where I use it the most is the dining room. It is the coldest… Read more »

On Monday morning I was soooooooo nervous as I prepared for a very short tv interview on Good Day PA, a show filmed in Harrisburg, PA. Knowing the whole thing was live and would only be three or four minutes felt like way more pressure than if it was half an hour or an hour…. Read more »

Alright everyone, please wear your best musical notes and stripes! Anticipating her upcoming adventure with her aunt and uncle to see a performance of Goodnight Moon, Sarah eagerly instructed an imaginary group of people about how to dress for the show. It occurred to me that no one ever is normally given the instruction to… Read more »

I can’t remember a time when I had such two momentous events in such a short span of time. The book launch a week ago was a bigger threshold than I expected and not in the way I anticipated. Somehow with all of my eagerness for the publication and launch, I didn’t think about how… Read more »

I thought Tuesday was a big day, but yesterday was one of the biggest most wonderful days of my life. Tuesday my book officially became available, and that was surreal and exciting to see people’s pictures as they held their pre-ordered copies. To celebrate the day we made milkshakes, commemorating the moment so many years… Read more »

This week I did a lot of interviews! It is so exciting to be talking to people about my book, and it also comes with a learning curve regarding technology. I used headphones for some podcasts but not others. For one, I recorded my half of the audio using Audacity. I did an instagram live… Read more »

For all of the events described in the next few paragraphs, know that everyone is alive and well. We just had a few adventures. Last Sunday the forecast for Pittsburgh was a formidable 4 inches of snow, so you can see why the schools felt they had to close! And to make that decision Sunday… Read more »

Happy New Year! We finished out our Christmas feasting and festivities with Carl’s side of the family. Music was made, games were played, and we completed one of the hardest jigsaw puzzles we have ever done. The girls rang in the new year with Grandma and Grandpa, although to be more specific, Amy and our… Read more »

For the past many Christmases we have traveled to warmer climes before heading to Philly to see my two sets of parents. This year we stayed put. Christmas Eve was filled with house tidying and baking gingerbread cookies. Then we attended an evening church service at a church we can walk to. We don’t usually… Read more »

As Sarah and I drove to her annual audiology appointment she informed me that she was a safari driver pointing out the red Xs that we were passing. As she continued to talk it took me a moment to realize the new name she was using to refer to herself: That’s Right. Once I realized… Read more »