Jenny Block's Writings
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Oct.23.2010
AmericanWay.com
Jenny Block discovers how an advertising campaign for Spanish brandy came to represent something else: an entire country.
The road to the workshop isn't paved. The old Volvo clunks along the rocks and shards of stone lining the alleyway. When the car stops, two tiny dogs chase each other in a race to reach it. Their yapping obscures the sound of a bright blue...
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Oct.23.2010
Newsweek.com
Why is everyone so surprised about Tiger Woods? When it comes down to it, monogamy doesn't always work.
So Tiger Woods gets caught cheating on his wife. Frankly, I'm surprised anyone's surprised. Woods's entire life is based on winning; on having, doing, and being more. So why on earth would anyone think "settling down" was even in his vocabulary? (...
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Oct.23.2010
HuffingtonPost.com
Every summer, for as long as I can remember, my family would spend a month on our sailboat. Me, my mom, my dad, and my little sister sailing up and down the Chesapeake Bay on our 28' Pearson, the Jenny Rebecca. I loved those summers. Playing Yahtzee. Rowing the dinghy ashore. Catching soft shell crabs off the pilings and selling them to nearby restaurants.
It...
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About Jenny
Jenny Block has a BA and an MA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She was a college English instructor for nearly ten years and now works as a freelance writer whose work has appeared in a variety of regional and national publications and on a number of...
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Muscular Dystrophy Association, Christian Children's Fund, Rape and Incest National Network (RAINN), HRC, Matthew Shepherd Foundation, Breast Cancer 3-Day...