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Jennifer Karin pens the award-winning Zen Mother column. She offers an irreverent look at modern life through a highly inappropriate advice column. Jennifer has been described as a cross between Erma Bombeck and Dave Barry.
An excerpt from Zen Mother:
I ran a successful marketing company for years. When my children were 2, 3 and 9, I decided to leave my career and stay at home. “Are you sure?” my husband asked. “Of course,” I answered. “What could be more rewarding than spending time with our beautiful children?” “Won’t it be hard?” he asked. “Puleeeze!” I said. “I’ve handled million dollar budgets for multi-million dollar companies. I can handle being a full-time mom.” Five days later, my husband came home from work to find me frantically typing on our computer. “What are you doing?” he asked. My eyes were wild with fear and my hair had not been brushed in days. “I’m selling the kids on eBay!” I shrieked.
Nationally selected December 2005
“Humor Writer of the Month ”
by the prestigious
Erma Bombeck
Writers' Workshop
"That First Line" 2006 Writing Contest
by Jennifer Karin
Grand Prize Contest Winner
ThatFirstLine.com
That First Line Writing Contest
"Calling in Sick"
by Jennifer Karin
Finalist
HumorPress.Com
America's Funniest Humor Contest
"Weathering Mommyhood"
By Jennifer Karin
Newburyport, MA
Third-Place Winner,
October/November 2005
HumorPress.com says: Forecast calls for heavy humor with frequent bouts of laughter!
“A Claus-et Case”
by Jennifer Karin
Finalist
HumorPress.Com
America's Funniest Humor Contest
"Emergency Hip Replacement"
by Jennifer Karin
Finalist
HumorPress.Com
America's Funniest Humor Contest
“Near Death Experiences”
by Jennifer Karin
Finalist
HumorPress.Com
America's Funniest Humor Contest
“Mini-Vantage”
by Jennifer Karin
Semi-finalist
HumorPress.Com
America's Funniest Humor Contest
“Wary of Dairy”
by Jennifer Karin
Honorable Mention
HumorPress.Com
America's Funniest Humor Contest
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright
O Happy Dagger! is an occasional column in which Jennifer Karin gets to wield her mighty pen about issues that cut deep in today's society. Her columns appeared monthly in The Undertoad, a political publication in Massachusetts, as well as several webzines.
An excerpt from O Happy Dagger! As it appeared in the Boston Sunday Globe; Oct. 12, 2003:
We love fame. We love celebrities. We love sports figures and politicians and big name defense lawyers who come to the aid of big time creeps. We say we love freedom of speech, but don’t speak out of turn or the wolves will turn on you faster than you can say “First Amendment.”
Rush Limbaugh provides what he was hired for – thought-provoking commentary – and gets fired for it. Arnold Schwarzenegger comments on what historians have noted about Adolf Hitler; Johnny Depp calls the United States an aggressive puppy (where would he get such an idea?); and the Dixie Chicks? Well, we already know how they feel about President Bush. They might as well leave Texas and move next door to Al Franken.
What do all these folks have in common? A point of view that is slowly disappearing from the gray matter of American citizens. We cry traitor, fascist, racist, sexist! We shut down any possibility of continued discussion and debate, thereby shutting down any chance of understanding. We are all burning at the pyre of political correctness with no extinguisher in sight. And there’s not an original thought to be left behind, buried beneath the ashes.
For sample work, please contact Jennifer Karin at jenkarin@mac.com.