Jenn Kelly: Author

Muchness…

First I want to apologize for the font size. (Hey that rhymes!) I have absolutely no idea how to change it. I can change the type of font, but not the size. I think it might be time to read more of “WordPress for Dummies” but it’s under a lot of cooking magazines (I made a chicken pot pie with walnut crust! Delish!) and I couldn’t be bothered to dig it out.

Muchness … I adore that word. It’s from Alice in Wonderland, of course. And we had just purchased the movie as I’ve seen it three times, so we had to buy it.  The scene where the Mad Hatter is talking to Alice, telling her that she has lost ‘much of her muchness’.

It’s so hard to describe ‘muchness’.  It’s not bravery, it’s not silliness, it’s not gumption. Well, not quite.

It’s … it’s…

For me, muchness is very personal.

It took muchness to travel to Guelph to a conference I knew nothing about, to talk to writers, publishers and agents I never heard of, to sell my book – nonaggressively. (is that a word?)  It took gumption to sit down with Andy Meisenheimer and dazzle him with my humour.

It took muchness to marry my soul mate. Not love. 

It took muchness to sell our beautiful home that Danny had built for us, so we could move into a small, crappy house we were renting so I could be a stay-at-home mom.

Where is your muchness? What have you done that is ‘muchworthy’?

Dream #2

I was about to leave the “Fox and the Feather” (Elgin St) with Dan, when Michelle Obama walked in. She had very pretty long wavy hair. Less matronly than the way she wears it now.  She was alone and had a handful of papers to read through.  I decided I would go over and talk to her about my book. I told Danny to go out to the car and get a copy of my book. But I didn’t have one. So I was working up the nerve to go talk to her about the book and see if I could mail her a copy to the White House. Then I woke up.

12 days.

Bumpity-bump-bump.

Will head to Barnes and Noble on August 8th I think.