I always used to make this meal when my kids were little. During this COVID 19 isolation, many of us […]

The enthusiastic response to the Chrysalis facemask I’m selling on ByJeeni.com is so exciting! What’s more, most people are paying […]

This began as a recipe for my blog, then became a poem. Is it a recipe? Is it a poem? […]

All of these "turns for the better" after days of frustration, can be attributed to two things: persistence and privilege.

I have improved the design and instructions for the Chrysalis facemask that can be used to protect an N95 or […]

Day 14: No word yet on the COVID 19 test – I should hear from them today. I started feeling […]

So, if you are feeling sick, first seek your doctor’s advice. But if that’s not available or they are too pressed to get into the self-care details, this might save you a trip to urgent care where, if you don’t have COVID 19, you might just pick it up like the goody bag from hell to take home to your family. If you are having trouble breathing, ask your doctor over the phone if you can get a prescription for an albuterol inhaler. If you’ve been sick for a week, ask about antibiotics. COVID 19 will weaken your defenses and leave you open to opportunistic bacterial infections that go in for the kill.

When you are the eldest of ten, and a bit of a misfit, you spend an inappropriate amount of time […]

Prickly Pears are refreshing and delicious once you know how to harvest and prepare them.

Back when I lived in New Jersey and Long Island, we were surrounded by lottsa fellow Italian-Americans. I don’t know […]

I didn’t think much of the novel, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami while I was reading it. But just like the Beatles […]

What if we could be voting for a real vision, instead of just trying to curb the daily assaults on justice […]

by Jeeni CriscenzoPublished in San Diego Free Press May 30, 2018 According to the survey in the 2018 Point-in-Time Count […]

In his commentary in the UT 1 last Sunday, John Wilkens offered a creative analogy to the annual homeless Point-in-Time Count […]

I grew up in a little town outside Paterson, New Jersey where most of the residents were second or third […]

If the current dose of daily news isn’t enough to convince you that there’s not much about our lives that […]

We never know what legacies we are leaving, what seeds we are sowing. Two years ago, my grandson, who was […]

I began writing this book in 2014 and by late 2015 it became obvious that no publisher could be convinced […]

The phone rang early this morning. The phone number for Amikas, the non-profit I founded in 2009 to house homeless women and children, is […]

We were coming down to the wire in the ’04 election campaign. The thought of Bush being president for another […]