About me

I read to learn about the world and write to learn about myself.  I use this web space to share daily musings to wind down from a long day and at times, explore metaphysical questions to unravel my mind when it’s trapped in a contemplative state– which is most of the time.

You probably won’t find much on here that entertains or makes you laugh; my guess is that you do enough of that in front of your TV set or while surfing the web during downtime at work.

Instead, my writings will probably make you think, nostalgic and at times contemplate to the point of frustration that you might end up hating me for it.  Either that- or you will simply be bored out of your mind and never come back.

Quite frankly, it doesn’t matter. I’ve been scribbling in my journal for the past 20 something years without a single audience so I have no problem writing for a small audience.  While I’m here with the hope of sharing my writings with the rest of the world (they asked me to be released), I’m not here to attract as many readers as possible by taking the ‘sell-out’ method to authorship. If you don’t know what I mean, that’s okay. If you do, we may already have a strong connection.

Jayna is not my real name; it is a pen name I’ve created to encourage myself to be more truthful, daring and experimental with my writings.  I wish I can do all these things using my real name, but unfortunately my profession does not allow this luxury at this time.

I have a MA and BA in English literature and as you can guess, carry an undying ardor for literature- not contemporary junk found in most bookstores nowadays- but REAL literature where meaning is created not only ‘on’ the text, but in gaps and nuances ‘inside’ the text.

My two favorite writers are Viriginia Woolf and Jean Rhys, who also published under several different pen names. For writers to truly explore the beauty and depth of language without reservation, it seems necessary at times, to leave their present worlds and identities behind.

Thanks for joining me.  This may perhaps be your best shot at getting to know the ‘real’ me.  Whether that’s a good or bad thing, I guess you’ll just have to find out.