Jen Clodius
@jenclodius.bsky.social
Word nerd, knitter, opinionated, recovering academic, cultural anthropologist, retired City of Portland Strategic Communications Manager. she/her
Back in the day, I used to tell my students, "Do NOT turn in your first draft as your final paper!"
December 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Back in the day, I used to tell my students, "Do NOT turn in your first draft as your final paper!"
How can you be so un-curious about your own health?!?
December 1, 2025 at 2:51 AM
How can you be so un-curious about your own health?!?
I am so proud of my Oregonian Senators Merkley and Wyden!
October 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I am so proud of my Oregonian Senators Merkley and Wyden!
So, so happy that you're my senator!
Thank you for the work you're doing.
Thank you for the work you're doing.
October 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
So, so happy that you're my senator!
Thank you for the work you're doing.
Thank you for the work you're doing.
Makes my heart hurt. 🥲
October 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Makes my heart hurt. 🥲
Oregon, for that matter!
October 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Oregon, for that matter!
Something good that's happened this week? You're writing again!
September 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Something good that's happened this week? You're writing again!
Transcript, please? I read more quickly that most people talk.
September 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Transcript, please? I read more quickly that most people talk.
I scored two small victories in his class. He wore suits, with vests. One day, I asked if a friend made the vest he was wearing. "Yes. How could you tell?" "A woman made it. The buttons and button holes are on the wrong side for a man."
And I corrected his pronunciation of "Nez Pierce".
And I corrected his pronunciation of "Nez Pierce".
August 31, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I scored two small victories in his class. He wore suits, with vests. One day, I asked if a friend made the vest he was wearing. "Yes. How could you tell?" "A woman made it. The buttons and button holes are on the wrong side for a man."
And I corrected his pronunciation of "Nez Pierce".
And I corrected his pronunciation of "Nez Pierce".
Mr. Sullivan, junior year, Leland High School. He made us read source documents like the Emancipation Proclamation (made my mother furious that he wasn't teaching "Lincoln freed the slaves"). He was stern. No nonsense. Eye-opening. Utterly intimidating. Difficult to please. Wonderful!
August 31, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Mr. Sullivan, junior year, Leland High School. He made us read source documents like the Emancipation Proclamation (made my mother furious that he wasn't teaching "Lincoln freed the slaves"). He was stern. No nonsense. Eye-opening. Utterly intimidating. Difficult to please. Wonderful!
I love the feel of natural fibers! And I just ordered a pile of KnitPicks DK acrylic to make washable toys for my soon-to-be granddaughter. Son and DiL will have enough on their hands! They don't need to be handwashing stuffed bunnies and bears.
August 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I love the feel of natural fibers! And I just ordered a pile of KnitPicks DK acrylic to make washable toys for my soon-to-be granddaughter. Son and DiL will have enough on their hands! They don't need to be handwashing stuffed bunnies and bears.
Whilst a kid, I was told, "If that's what you think, you have another think coming!" (I'm older than you, fwiw.)
August 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Whilst a kid, I was told, "If that's what you think, you have another think coming!" (I'm older than you, fwiw.)
Gotcha, sistah!
And they're so, so, SO confident!
Guy once told me I was missing new research from Jen Clodius on the (pre web) idea that communities of interest were forming on the internet.
Hello, alt.req.quilting?
And then he told me I was mispronouncing Clodius. 🙄
And they're so, so, SO confident!
Guy once told me I was missing new research from Jen Clodius on the (pre web) idea that communities of interest were forming on the internet.
Hello, alt.req.quilting?
And then he told me I was mispronouncing Clodius. 🙄
August 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Gotcha, sistah!
And they're so, so, SO confident!
Guy once told me I was missing new research from Jen Clodius on the (pre web) idea that communities of interest were forming on the internet.
Hello, alt.req.quilting?
And then he told me I was mispronouncing Clodius. 🙄
And they're so, so, SO confident!
Guy once told me I was missing new research from Jen Clodius on the (pre web) idea that communities of interest were forming on the internet.
Hello, alt.req.quilting?
And then he told me I was mispronouncing Clodius. 🙄
My dad was (unbeknownst to my sister and me (maybe 8 and 10 years old?)) building a Heath kit stereo in the basement. When he finished, the Sound of Music soundtrack was the first thing he played.
We were astonished! Our dad was so talented!
AND Sound of Music!
#TheSoundOfMusic
We were astonished! Our dad was so talented!
AND Sound of Music!
#TheSoundOfMusic
August 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
My dad was (unbeknownst to my sister and me (maybe 8 and 10 years old?)) building a Heath kit stereo in the basement. When he finished, the Sound of Music soundtrack was the first thing he played.
We were astonished! Our dad was so talented!
AND Sound of Music!
#TheSoundOfMusic
We were astonished! Our dad was so talented!
AND Sound of Music!
#TheSoundOfMusic
WTaF is he talking... oh, never mind. 🙄
July 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
WTaF is he talking... oh, never mind. 🙄
My handwriting has deteriorated (inherited Essential Tremor, thanks Dad!) and was temporarily baffled an item on my grocery list: sunday tomatoes.
July 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
My handwriting has deteriorated (inherited Essential Tremor, thanks Dad!) and was temporarily baffled an item on my grocery list: sunday tomatoes.
I thought gift-as-a-verb was my personal peeve. Been around for centuries? I sit corrected. Thank you, sir!
July 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I thought gift-as-a-verb was my personal peeve. Been around for centuries? I sit corrected. Thank you, sir!
Dagnabbit! I'm still working through your summer reading list (Alice in Wonderland audio book, read by Jim Dale, is wonderful fun), and now you're adding new books to my Must Read pile? You already sucked me into Erma Bombeck's cook book.
July 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Dagnabbit! I'm still working through your summer reading list (Alice in Wonderland audio book, read by Jim Dale, is wonderful fun), and now you're adding new books to my Must Read pile? You already sucked me into Erma Bombeck's cook book.
Me, too! It had descenders! And color! (And the third 8K of RAM cost another $1000, as I recall.)
July 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Me, too! It had descenders! And color! (And the third 8K of RAM cost another $1000, as I recall.)
Love me some semicolons! "In one sentence, describe [x]"? Honey bunch you'd have been better off giving me a word count.
July 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Love me some semicolons! "In one sentence, describe [x]"? Honey bunch you'd have been better off giving me a word count.