My “Hawk to Hawk Podcast” Interview

I'd like to extend a huge thank you to Eden Fritz Aguiar for having me on the October 2023 episode of the Hawk to Hawk Podcast and for being such a welcoming host! As a University of Hartford alum, I was honored to be invited as a guest to discuss my book, the publishing process, …

Sleep – The Lonesome Cricket Standoff

When I was about 4 or 5 years old, my older brothers and I discovered two crickets living under the basement steps. We named them Donny and Marie, after the famous Osmond sibling duo who, at the time, starred in their very own hit TV variety show. These crickets did not sound “a little bit …

2023 Independent Press Award Winner

Jennifer Rosado receives national recognition through the INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD®! The  INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD recognized My Alternate Universe: Anxiety, Autism, and Adventure in a Parallel Reality by Jennifer Rosado as a 2023 WINNER in the category of Memoir. The competition is judged by experts from different aspects of the book industry, including publishers, writers, editors, book cover designers and professional …

“My Alternate Universe: Anxiety, Autism, and Adventure in a Parallel Reality” by Jennifer Rosado

A huge thank you to Reader Views for this awesome review!

Reader Views Book Reviews

My Alternate Universe: Anxiety, Autism, and Adventure in a Parallel Reality

Jennifer Rosado
PYP Academy Press (2022)
ISBN: 978-1955985307
Reviewed by Sacha Fortune for Reader Views (11/2022)

“My Alternate Universe: Anxiety, Autism, and Adventure in a Parallel Reality” by Jennifer Rosado is a beautifully crafted and engaging memoir that I flew through in a couple of hours without pause.

The author recounts her own foibles as an anxious person and how it led to her experience with one of life’s greatest letdowns: childbirth. Her imagined experience quickly turned into a horror story of pain with an unplanned C-section, a stint in the NIC-U, and a colicky “volatile, mutant” child with superpowers. It was an out-of-body experience whereby she could imagine her “other self” in an alternate universe living her well-planned life.

Her thoughts on early motherhood will resonate with mothers everywhere:

Time started to lose meaning. […] It felt like…

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Welcome!

Hello readers — fellow seekers, dreamers, and kindred travelers navigating this strange, humbling, enlightening universe... Welcome to my freshly renovated website! A newcomer may be surprised to learn that I've blogged on this site since February 2014. Where is all the content, you ask? Well, I recently compiled almost all of my past blog posts …

Podcast – My “Ruthless Compassion” Interview

I'd like to extend a huge thank you to Dr. Sirota for inviting me onto her Ruthless Compassion podcast. Although I was a little nervous about my very first podcast interview, Dr. Sirota was an engaging interviewer and quickly put me at ease. What resulted was a great conversation about my experiences raising my son …

Join Me For My Book Launch Interview With PYP!

Please join me for my live book launch interview with Jenn T. Grace, founder and CEO of Publish Your Purpose Press, on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at 12:15pm (EDT). If you can't watch it live, the video will be available to watch later on YouTube. In the interview, I'll be discussing the purpose and importance …

Announcing My Debut Memoir!

Available April 26, 2022, on Amazon! Summary from the Back Cover of My Alternate Universe... Somewhere out there, on some other timeline, in some other plane of existence, another version of me is living the life I had planned. I picture her to be a peacefully content, self-assured supermom and a bit of a smug …

Friends – Laughter and Frosting

I met my friend Angela my freshman year of college when we bonded over cat cadavers in Anatomy and Physiology lab. I was drawn to her delightfully odd sense of humor and ability to take jokes a bit too far in the best possible way. I was a heavy metal chick at the time, with …

Stress – Learning to Deal With Sh*t (With the Help of a Dung Beetle)

I read somewhere that people who have a positive attitude live longer. If this is, indeed, the case – I am screwed. As far as I can tell, I’ve pretty much been a crotchety old person complaining about the music being too loud and telling people to get the hell off my lawn (figuratively speaking, …