Jennifer Wray

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Regular ol’ middle-aged Midwestern mom: Vegetarian. Heart attack survivor. I was dead-ish for about five minutes. Tongue-tied. No middle name. Ate fire once. She/her. That about covers it.

A boy roughly nine years of age is living his best life, his arms thrown up in joy and a grin spread across his face, with Moon Shoes (mini trampolines) strapped to his feet.
A cotton candy pink peony unfurls petals that look as soft as silk and collectively make for one pillowy bloom.
A black dog with brown patches wears a red and silver garland headband with two shiny red stars popping up like antennas. His tongue is out and curled around, its tip touching the very center of his snout.
Person in the stands at a baseball stadium holding a handwritten sign that says, “I just hope both teams lose.”
A screen grab with a Moran. A subtitle at the bottom of the image reads, “EVERYTHING IS WRONG.”
The very very brown facade of Hinkle’s Marengo Hardware, featuring old timey Western type of the business name on a storefront made of flagstone and wood paneling.
A low-res image depicting a box of Manischewitz’s late, great White Grape Matzo. RIP. 🍇
Back of a VW Jetta with a variety of “Honk if you __ stickers,” with endings such as “are worried,” “if you’re harrumphy,” “if you aren’t going to eat your pickle and I can have it,” and so on.
Three one-inch buttons are pinned on a lime green slip of paper. Two, duplicates, read “FUCK ICE,” another shows Snoopy in his “Red Baron” persona, surrounded by the words Peace, Love, Unity and Respect. A fourth button has been removed from the paper so as to keep this poster out of real trouble.
Against a background of hardwood floor rests two feet, each of which are covered in teal socks with black polka dots. The top of each foot has a devious-looking cat with a bow around its neck, and directly below is the message “FUCK IT,” with a small heart between the words.
Two panda impersonators care for a small, real, panda between them.
A child, rendered into a silhouette by the sun setting behind them, stands on top of a pile of snow approximately seven feet high.
A text conversation regarding a cat being discovered in the freezing cold. Text: Neighbor: “We just scooped a tabby cat off your porch. She was howling and shivering from the cold. I assume not yours?” Me: “Not ours. I assume it’s this one?” (Pic of a tabby curled up on a chair.) Neighbor: “Yeah that’s her!” Me: “Thank you for doing that. Do you still have her? Someone on FB told me the owner is on the Weber. I don’t know them but I can try to hunt them down.”
Book cover with the title “Role-Playing Games in Psychotherapy.” Image shows heroic figure standing near body of water, looking toward what appears to be a large burning cross.
Screenshot of Ben wearing a T-shirt reading “An Ohio State University.”
Screenshot from Facebook Marketplace shows a pink, disembodied plastic hand—missing fingernails—attached to a black clamp. It’s $30. CASH ONLY.
A child dressed in wet, yellow striped swim trunks and a chartreuse rash guard wears a LEGO minifig mask and reaches his LEGO claw hands toward the camera.
Box for a Playmobile toy showing a helmet-wearing construction worker holding a newspaper right outside of a port-a-potty that beckons him with a partially opened door.
Playmobil figurine suited up in fire gear and gloves, with a flashlight, a snake-grabber stick thingy, two snakes and a clear box to contain them in.
Cover of the NES game “Remote Control,” based on the MTV show of the same name. Cover features three players sitting on recliners in front of their individual digital scoreboard. Fun fact: This is the show that launched Adam Sandler’s career.
iPhone alarms set for 5:46 am, 5:55 am, 6:03 am, 6:07 am, and 6:11 am. God help us all.
Straight-on image of a giant sugar cookie topped with cream cheese frosting and carefully placed strawberries and blueberries, surrounding the letters “FDT,” which were sliced from golden mango.
A crowd of people in raincoats, jackets, and caps, many of whom are carrying open umbrellas. One woman holds an Uncle Sam effigy in the air with text overlaid that says “we the people,” “hands off” and lists items such as “free speech” and “our bodies.”
Side by side pictures of a recipe for vegan meringue cookies (with a beautiful pastel pic), and my result—what looks like crushed potato chips with sprinkles.
A concrete lawn goose with chipped paint wears a felt flower with orange petals around its head and yellow flower-shaped sunglasses. It is dressed in a green tulle skirt with metallic shamrocks printed on it.
Flyer reading “we surrendered the Cold War to Putin,” with a photo of Putin altered to have the hammer and sickle on his forehead and to have a skull instead of flesh for his jaw.
A street corner in the winter. An electrical box is at the intersection, and among the graffiti is a message at the top reading “Kill Elon.”
Onstage at the Woodward Theater in Cincinnati. Kim Deal holds onto a mic stand and sings. One of the two backup singers is her twin, Kelley Deal.
Recording of Minecraft video game depicting burning Minecraft guy. He has fallen to the ground. My child can be heard asking for help.
Video of my son’s Minecraft guy burning (digitally) while my child yells and cries for me to help.
Still from “Mean Girls” showing Katy (Lindsay Lohan) at a math competition with the text, “The limit does not exist.”
Screenshot of a human and a hamster in a head-to-head competition that sees them both making their way through a ball but scaled to their particular proportions.
Cycling Frog sparkling THC ice tea & lemonade, with an impressive 50 mg each of THC and CBD.
A handmade Krampus figure made out of air-dry foam clay sits atop a miniature wooden house. Krampus has a red tongue, yellow teeth, bulging blue eyes and impressively large horns.
Still from Grudge Match, an early 90s syndicated show that saw friends with a dispute battle it out in ridiculous competitions, including this boxing match conducted with oversized gloves.
Kel Mitchell (in green) and another man whose name I do not know strike a pose on the Dance 360 show’s competition circle, used for head to head dance-offs.
Foreground: 40-something white man in a hoodie and trucker cap gazes lovingly at a record titled Clang Clang Ho by the band Cub Scout Bowling Pins (aka Guided By Voices). Background has a record player and framed art on the walls.
Oh lawd, he comin’. Action shot of a chonky gray and white cat maneuvering down concrete stairs and onto the sidewalk.
Sweet, sweet HitchBOT circa 2015. Depicted here sitting, thumb out, waiting for someone to stop.
A car’s tire—seemingly in perfect condition—sits on a wide cement sidewalk in front of a white brick wall.
WikiHow provides comebacks for your haters, beginning with this one: “Bet you make onions cry when you chop them.”
Selfie. Woman sign brown hair and glasses holds a coffee mug reading “I scream! You scream! We all scream just constantly. Each day is a new nightmare in this hell world called earth.” There is a drawing of an elephant on the mug.
Still from Mortal Kombat reading “FINISH HIM!!” with a strong woman destroying her weak opponent. Like this debate.
The man himself, Bob Pollard.
David Byrne crying out with fists clenched, “my god, what have I done?”
Super annoying pizza jigsaw puzzle.
Pic circa 2009 of a couple gesturing at the impressively large and saggy testicles belonging to a tanuki sculpture in Japan.
Kriss Kross cosplaying as Sarah.
Two of the three penguin-shaped bath bombs from H-E-L-L
A child plays in a bathtub that is inexplicably filled with pitch-black liquid. He obscures his face with a smiling, teal-colored Scrub Daddy sponge, which will be used to un-dye the tub, post-bath.
White woman with oversized glasses sits in the foreground. In the background is a series of small pools and the largest digital screen you can imagine, showing several sporting events at once.
A flattened can of twisted tea (blackberry flavor) on the ground, in an urban crosswalk. The photographer’s Chuck Taylors are in the shot to provide scale and perspective.
Image from Columbus, Ohio’s annual Doo Dah Parade. Parade-watchers look on at a person holding a sign saying, “American Exceptionalism: 350 mass shootings already in 2023.” In the foreground, a man in a stars-and-stripes wrestling singlet and a similarly patterned kerchief covering his face, as well as an American flag cape, white sunglasses, and a green helmet, rides by on a longboard skateboard. Despite the helmet, the amount of skin exposed guarantees grave injury if he falls.