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Jennie Helderman

Author. Blogger. Activist.

Growing up in my family, you had to thread a worm onto a bream hook or tell stories. I can still do both.
I'm an author, blogger, speaker, and champion of women and children. Can tell my stories or help you tell yours.
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As The Sycamore Grows

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Funeral fresh flowers sign makes me ask what funeral fresh means by Jennie Helderman
Black Angus contrast with yellow flowers on road from Walnut Grove to Cullman, ALUnveiling of Helen Keller statue

Southern Funerals

Cousin Claude died in arms of one-legged woman and family wants his body returned for burial.

Cousin Claude and That One-Legged Woman

Just because somebody’s kin, you don’t have to like him, but you can’t bust your buttons telling tales about his funeral else kinfolk you do like might be hurt. … [Read More...]

Senior Coffee

Sparks fly when elderly couple routines to scene of first sex, proving old love still exciting by Jennie Helderman

Sparks Fly for Old Lovers

  The husband leans over and asks his wife, "Do you remember the first time we had sex together over fifty years ago? We went behind the village … [Read More...]

Personal Essay

Rest in Peace

Farewell Toaster Oven

Toaster Oven Dec., 1959-Sept., 2018 You were a wedding gift 59 years ago. You’ve made our toast every morning and reheated our snacks. We remember who gave you to us. We intended to write GE to tell them about you, but didn’t. You outlived GE’s small appliance division anyway. You made our toast yesterday and […]

Protestors with signs

March for Our Lives—Atlanta

MARCH FOR OUR LIVES—ATLANTA March 24, 2018 “I hid in a closet Feb. 14. and I’m not hiding anymore. I’m not hiding from my government, not hiding from the NRA, not hiding from guns. And most of all I am not hiding from change.” Carly Novell, Parkland High survivor 30,000 in Atlanta, millions across the […]

Love of a foster dog

Goodbye, Winston…..revisiting a memory

Goodbye, Winston. When I agreed to foster Winston early in December, 2013, I thought he’d be around only a few weeks. He stayed four months. Just out of a bad situation of neglect, he was so happy to have a home, people to love—and a name—that he followed my every step. I’m sedentary, though, and […]

Author Photo Jennie Miller Helderman is the author of As the Sycamore Grows, winner of six national nonfiction awards, speaker on domestic violence and women's issues, and freelance writer.

Recent Posts

  • Farewell Toaster Oven September 8, 2018
  • March for Our Lives—Atlanta March 24, 2018
  • Unveiling of Helen Keller Statue in U.S. Capitol—A Memory Post March 12, 2018

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