Jenuflections

The Voice and the Library

In this episode, I explore what it means to grow in public — to let a machine learn my voice while remembering the place where my voice was first taken seriously.
From a rural library desk and handwritten checkout cards to GPS directions and faxed paperwork, this is a reflection on how technology reshapes the small crossings that once marked our becoming.
As our tools grow more precise and friction disappears, what still requires trust? What still requires people? And how do we remain human while learning to work alongside increasingly intelligent machines?

The Owl and the Algorithm

We are living through a hinge of history.
In this opening episode, I explore what it means to stand in ordinary life — at a kitchen table, on a walking trail, in the quiet aftermath of loss — while artificial intelligence quietly reshapes the way we work, remember, and relate.
This isn’t a tech podcast, and it isn’t a grief podcast. It’s a reflection on the ethical tension between innovation and humanity. As our tools begin to write, generate, and even approximate our voices, we are faced with deeper questions: What does progress change? What does it diminish? And what must remain sacred?
The owl is personal. The algorithm is cultural. The conversation is just beginning.

Welcome to Jenuflections

This is a podcast for anyone who’s ever stood in the kitchen at dusk, wondering how we got from rotary phones to artificial intelligence.
Each episode is part essay, part meditation, part field report from ordinary life in extraordinary times. It’s a space for the nostalgic and the curious, the weary and the ambitious, the skeptical and the hopeful.
Pull up a chair. The coffee is still warm.