Jessica Dettmann

JESSICA DETTMANN

  • HOME

  • ABOUT

  • BOOKS

  • MEDIA

  • EVENTS

  • CONTACT

  • BLOG: Life With Gusto

  • More

    Use tab to navigate through the menu items.
    • All Posts
    • 101 Uses for an English degree
    • Accidents
    • Awful things
    • Advice
    • anxiety
    • Babies
    • Bags
    • Beauty
    • Blogging
    • Birth
    • Birthdays
    • Bread Loaf School of English
    • Books
    • Breastfeeding
    • Bright sides
    • Children's books
    • Cake
    • Comedy
    • Christmas
    • Cooking
    • Cleaning
    • Craft
    • Crimes
    • Discipline
    • Daycare
    • Death
    • Dreadful puns
    • Drinks
    • exercise
    • Fashion
    Search
    A Realistic Advent Calendar
    jdettmann
    • Nov 30, 2015
    • 4 min

    A Realistic Advent Calendar

    Tomorrow is the first of December, which means today is the perfect day for good parents to fire up Pinterest and check out some of the...
    0 views0 comments
    Paint It Black
    jdettmann
    • Jun 15, 2012
    • 2 min

    Paint It Black

    A mother, on the other hand, in my humble experience of less than two years, is more like the shell of a person. The stretched out, faded...
    0 views0 comments
    Do As I Say, Not As I Do.
    jdettmann
    • Apr 1, 2012
    • 2 min

    Do As I Say, Not As I Do.

    Last week I was grating a raw beetroot into a pot of soup (this soup, incidentally, which is so delicious I almost ate H’s portion before...
    0 views0 comments
    Highly Commended
    jdettmann
    • Jan 28, 2012
    • 3 min

    Highly Commended

    The Show is a two-day affair, Friday and Saturday, and a celebration of all things agricultural. It is also, in its own way and perhaps...
    0 views0 comments
    A New Year, A New Way To Eat Potato Chips
    jdettmann
    • Jan 2, 2012
    • 2 min

    A New Year, A New Way To Eat Potato Chips

    More guests arrived and three cats became four; an eleven-dollar blow-up paddling pool provided at least twelve dollars worth of fun; I...
    1 view0 comments
    There Will Be Festivity … And A Little Bit Of Begging
    jdettmann
    • Dec 19, 2011
    • 2 min

    There Will Be Festivity … And A Little Bit Of Begging

    Decorating: done (yes, all my bookshelves are this pretentious) There are but three shopping days left until Christmas, dear reader(s)....
    0 views0 comments
    Do Yourself A Favour
    jdettmann
    • Oct 28, 2011
    • 2 min

    Do Yourself A Favour

    This morning, between baking four huge chocolate cakes and dealing with a toddler suffering from what I thought was fear of the noise the...
    0 views0 comments
    Down With Diversity
    jdettmann
    • Oct 26, 2011
    • 1 min

    Down With Diversity

    Where are your friends? If this is some sort of sock conspiracy to make me lose my tiny mind and turn to the cooking sherry before nine...
    1 view0 comments
    Hoot, There It Is!
    jdettmann
    • Oct 10, 2011
    • 2 min

    Hoot, There It Is!

    One black and white owl, perched on the screen door. The month of September came to an end and the Mystery of The Toilet Roll Owls was...
    0 views0 comments
    Owl Be Watching You
    jdettmann
    • Sep 19, 2011
    • 2 min

    Owl Be Watching You

    A small army of owls Mysterious things never happen to me. Well, almost never. There was the incident with the Russian stalker who stole...
    0 views0 comments

    ​FOLLOW ME

    • Instagram (where I am most of the time)
    • Facebook Social Icon
    • Twitter Social Icon

    © 2023 by Samanta Jones. Proudly created with Wix.com