Blog — Jena Schwartz

The Hands All but Fly: Why We Need Art

Why we need art.

Creative Process, Jewish Life, Real LifeJena SchwartzDecember 5, 2025Comment

By the River {a poem}

Poetry, ObservationsJena SchwartzNovember 26, 2025Comment

Change One Thing and Everything Changes

Creative Process, Observations, Real Life, Writing PromptsJena SchwartzNovember 12, 2025facebook, social media, real lifeComment

I Hope No One Will Read this; I Hope Someone Will Read This

I Hope No One Will Read this; I Hope Someone Will Read This

Jena SchwartzNovember 7, 2025Comment

What Made You Smile? {a poem}

Tell me three things…

PoetryJena SchwartzApril 10, 2024Comment

Remember the Redwoods

PoetryJena SchwartzFebruary 19, 2024Comment

One Thing I Ask {a poem}

Poetry, Jewish LifeJena SchwartzSeptember 26, 2023Yom Kippur, Jewish, Jewish Life, God, PrayerComment

24 Questions for the (Jewish) New Year

Jewish Life, Writing PromptsJena SchwartzSeptember 18, 2023rosh hashanah, teshuvah Comment

My Rock Star

Whoever created this linear idea of time clearly wanted to impose some order…

Real LifeJena SchwartzMay 13, 2023love, Marriage, marriage, time, TimeComment

Help Thanks Wow (after Anne Lamott)

ObservationsJena SchwartzMarch 11, 2023prayers, prayer, PrayerComment

Good Poems {a poem}

PoetryJena SchwartzMarch 4, 2023Comment

Murmuration {a poem}

PoetryJena SchwartzFebruary 21, 2023Comment

Here for This

We are here for this. We are here to hear to each other's calls.

CommunityJena SchwartzFebruary 17, 2023Comment

Social Media, the Trees, and Reclaiming My Life

Social Media, the Trees, and Reclaiming My Life

Like any addiction, it's also easy to downplay, justify, and downright ignore.

Observations, Creative ProcessJena SchwartzFebruary 13, 2023Comment

Lost and Found

Sometimes we cannot find ourselves without the losing, and sometimes we cannot keep what we find.

ObservationsJena SchwartzJanuary 28, 2023Comment

Are You Caught in Write + Delete Syndrome?

Are You Caught in Write + Delete Syndrome?

Editing is its own process – and you get to do it AFTER you write.

Coaching, Creative Process, Jewish LifeJena SchwartzJanuary 27, 2023perfectionismComment

Suggestions for Making Your Dreams Come True

Suggestions for Making Your Dreams Come True

Coaching, Real Life, ObservationsJena SchwartzJanuary 25, 2023Coaching, career counselor, Career, dreamsComment

Advice to Myself

Don’t believe everything you think.

Real LifeJena SchwartzJanuary 10, 2023Comment

11 Things from 2022

11s, Real Life, ObservationsJena SchwartzJanuary 2, 202311 thingsComment