Life of JEM: My Life In The Inland Empire

A BLOG ABOUT THE ZANY CHILDHOOD AND ADULT ADVENTURES OF A GIRL FROM THE INLAND EMPIRE WHO MOVED OUT OF THE INLAND EMPIRE ONLY TO END UP BACK IN THE INLAND EMPIRE.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

The conumdrum

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My conumdrum is that I am happy but not content.  I have a husband who loves me, a job I love most days and three lovely dogs (no baby, but ...
Monday, January 14, 2013

The Mulligan

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I feel like I have written this story before. Maybe it's been in my head a long time.  Or maybe I have written a varient of this story b...
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Thursday, January 10, 2013

How Soon Is Now

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Morrissey and his (former) band the Smiths were my haven. It started in my teenage years and continues to now. I remember first seeing the n...

The Return of the Writer

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I am watching 'Return of the Jedi' on cable. It is six p.m. on New Year's Eve and I am in bed. I have a slight cold and my shih ...
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The Medium

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Watching someone die changes you. When the paramedic asked me, "Should we go on?" I had to say no. My father had been diagnosed wi...

New Year

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2013 is a new year and a new day. If I sometimes sound like a Weight Watchers' commercial it's because I am one. 2012 was the year I...

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

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There is an old Smiths song that goes "I was looking for a job and then I found a job and heaven knows I'm miserable now". Ple...
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About Me

Juanita E. Mantz (JEM)
JEM's life story is the stuff that memoirs are made of. JEM went from punk rock high school dropout to corporate lawyer to rock star deputy public defender and nonfiction writer. JEM's stories, blog and video podcast document her journey so take a look! Her YA memoir, "Tales of an Inland Empire Girl", is available via Los Nietos Press (and through all national retailers). Her book tells the poignant story of her chaotic YA life growing up in the IE. Her chapbook, "Portrait of a Deputy Public Defender, or how I became a punk rock lawyer", was also released in Aug 2021 by Bamboo Darts Press. JEM is married to her wonderful husband Adrian who is a dentist. They have two Shih Tzus, Frodo and Chewbaca (Chewie to his friends). Her work has been published in Aljazeera, The Acentos Review, The Dirty Spoon Radio Hour, Entropy, As/Us, Inlandia, & Mutha magazine, among others. Go to her author website for more info at https://juanitaemantz.com. JEM is in the creative writing MFA low residency program at UNO. She has presented at AWP, Beyond Baroque and the UCR Punk Conference.
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