Jennifer Messner
@occasionallyzen.bsky.social
Books, coffee, photos, nonprofit grant writer, Southside Chicago
Strong cover game in today's library book haul #booksky #amreading
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Strong cover game in today's library book haul #booksky #amreading
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds - with God's help I catch some.
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
#Sundaysentence #booksky
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
#Sundaysentence #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds - with God's help I catch some.
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
#Sundaysentence #booksky
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
#Sundaysentence #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
December 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Good morning, Chicago
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Good morning, Chicago
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
...if the place is legitimate there is no pool, there is no second floor, just leather against flesh, flesh against bone, rope slapping concrete, slapping earth, that machine gun fire of sideways fists against speed bag.
#sundaysentence Lucas Schaefer, The Slip
#sundaysentence Lucas Schaefer, The Slip
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
...if the place is legitimate there is no pool, there is no second floor, just leather against flesh, flesh against bone, rope slapping concrete, slapping earth, that machine gun fire of sideways fists against speed bag.
#sundaysentence Lucas Schaefer, The Slip
#sundaysentence Lucas Schaefer, The Slip
Out and about ❄️❄️❄️
November 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Out and about ❄️❄️❄️
...and tradecraft style
November 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
...and tradecraft style
A few of the books I loved to revisit this year, magic style
November 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A few of the books I loved to revisit this year, magic style
A few of the books I loved this year, Chicago style
November 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A few of the books I loved this year, Chicago style
Happy snow day, Chicago
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Happy snow day, Chicago
A few of the books I loved best this year
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A few of the books I loved best this year
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We're a city of steel, not gold; crust not crimson; Jewels not jewels.
Barry Pearce. the Homegrown Pontiff, Chicago Magazine
#sundaysentence
Barry Pearce. the Homegrown Pontiff, Chicago Magazine
#sundaysentence
November 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
We're a city of steel, not gold; crust not crimson; Jewels not jewels.
Barry Pearce. the Homegrown Pontiff, Chicago Magazine
#sundaysentence
Barry Pearce. the Homegrown Pontiff, Chicago Magazine
#sundaysentence
wands and wards
November 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
wands and wards
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Goodnight, city
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Goodnight, city
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Maybe this was what age did...Confirmed you in your image of yourself even while it unpicked the reality, leaving you the tattered remnant of the person you'd once been.
Mick Herron, Slow Horses #sundaysentence #booksky
Mick Herron, Slow Horses #sundaysentence #booksky
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Maybe this was what age did...Confirmed you in your image of yourself even while it unpicked the reality, leaving you the tattered remnant of the person you'd once been.
Mick Herron, Slow Horses #sundaysentence #booksky
Mick Herron, Slow Horses #sundaysentence #booksky