The Tao of Jen

Happy New Year! I hope you’ve all had a wonderful holiday season. Got any big resolutions for 2016? My goal for this year is to stop spending so much time on the Internet and particularly social media. I’ve concluded I take in...

Not too long ago, in a municipality far, far away … Winston, the brainiest elf in the North Pole, put down the science fiction book he was reading and looked out the library window with concern as the snow began to fall harder...

LIFE SPOILER ALERT: The following contains sensitive information that should not be viewed by young children or young-at-heart folks of all ages who do not wish to subject themselves to the harsh and terrible realities of...

The holiday season is officially upon us, and I hope you guys are all looking forward to plenty of happy times with friends and family! I’m looking forward to celebrating with my loved ones, despite all the turmoil that’s been...

We’re already swiftly approaching the middle of November and it looks like we might finally be getting a nice little stretch of that delicious fall weather we always look forward to here in Mobile. I suppose some folks call it...

As much as I love Halloween, at some point I pretty much always end up feeling like a grumpy old curmudgeon. That’s really a shame because I love almost everything about the “holiday,” including the pumpkins, the spooky...

Well it’s certainly been an exciting few weeks for space nerds! I’ve probably used this column to ramble about space exploration enough that it’s probably no secret I’m a big NASA fangirl, but these last few weeks have been...

Thanks for coming back this week to hear the rest of my not-so-legendary kung fu tale. Without further ado, please enjoy this exclusive peek into the training journal of a real-life suburban warrior. Aug. 2, 2014: Dear Kung Fu...

A little over a year ago, I made one of the scariest and most exciting decisions of my life. After spending much of my life daydreaming about learning kung fu, I finally decided to enroll at the Shaolin Institute here in Mobile....