The Play On Project / Pairing Music and Food

Oct 18, 2020
4 min

Masking It.

Have you noticed that it’s a lot easier these days to talk to yourself in public with a mask on?? I suppose I talk to myself more than...

Apr 29
4 min

the violet in my kitchen

There is a special potted plant in our house that goes beyond my lifetime. Generations of carefully clipped stems placed in small pots of...

Mar 3
4 min

"Snowmageddon"

The last two weeks have felt like two years. Perhaps that might be an exaggeration, but never-the-less a time that I will forever...

Feb 10
4 min

Groundhogs Day

I find it funny that Groundhogs day was just last week… a day I continued to make jokes about all year long. In a month it will be a year...

Jan 8
4 min

The Little Red Toaster

New Years has always been a mystery to me. I think in my mind I have always started over. Like start the calendar all over again and...

Dec 2, 2020
4 min

Running like a Redneck

Getting exercise during Covid days with an eleven month old and a three year old is practically impossible. For someone that has danced...

Oct 3, 2020
5 min

Restless Baking

I’ll be the first one to tell you that I’m not that good at relaxing… I know this because most days with or without my kids I cannot sit...

Sep 16, 2020
4 min

A New Normal

I’m celebrating the opening night of football by making my famously homemade popcorn on the stove. We’re a Chiefs family… As in Kansas...

Aug 31, 2020
3 min

carpenters, rocking chairs, and lattes

So it’s almost fall ya’ll and although this Texas heat does not have me jumping up for joy, the small guilty pleasure at Starbucks does....

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MEET JENNIFER

Food and Music have always been a place of connection and community for me. A place where my emotions can run wild and I allow myself to become vulnerable, valued, and loved. I pair these two beautiful things together in this blog in hopes that you will feel the freedom to taste, to feel, to dance and to love also.