About

Jennifer de Guzman is a writer and comics publishing professional living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She writes stories about sad girls, seawater, bottomless wells, airborne plagues, and horses. You can find links to some of them them in the Selected Works section or read them at her Scribd page.

What Are Possible Impossiblities?

“The Poet ought rather to chuse Impossibilities, provided they have Resemblance to the Truth, than the Possible, which are Incredible with all their Possibility.”
- Henry Fielding, quoting Aristotle in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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New Mateo Home

A couple of Mateo-related announcements.

First, here are some samples from Mateo’s photo session from a couple of weeks ago. The photographer, Christine Szeto, is marvelous. She came to our house and got the best expressions from Mateo.

Second, I’ve made a blog specifically for mothering-related stuff called Mateo and Me. This site will be [...]

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Five Things That Are Tough to Convince a Six-Month-Old Of

1. Strained peas are the most delicious food you will ever eat.

2. Taking a nap really is in your own best interest.

3. Screaming is not the best method of communication.

4. Mom and Dad’s hands are not teething rings.

5. The kitty is not a teething ring.

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Anniversary

Brian and I forgot it was our anniversary when we woke up this morning. Life sort of got in the way of remembering. We’d been out the night before at a San Jose Giants game. (They’re a Giants minor league team, and their stadium has the best churros in the world.) I woke up first, [...]

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A Few of My Favorite Things

“… We should not grieve, should we, baby?” said Celia confidentially to that unconscious centre and poise of the world, who had the most remarkable fists all complete even to the nails, and hair enough, really, when you took his cap off, to make — you didn’t know what: — in short, he was [...]

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I Made Him Myself

Mateo Bernard de Guzman Belew was born at 12:03 p.m. on January 15, 2010. He weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces, had a perfect Apgar score, and is clearly the most awesome baby ever. Brian and I are in enchanted with him.

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