January 2012
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Junior League of Baltimore: Unsung Hero Award
I was awarded an Unsung Hero award by the Junior League of Baltimore at our General Membership Meeting on January 24, 2012. The award is for my work with the League’s Twitter account: @JLBaltimore. The text of my nomination appears below: Jennifer Yousfi has taken over the JLB Twitter account this year and increased communications and awareness for the League! Because of her upkeep and...
Jan 25th
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“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jan 24th
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“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”
– Anais Nin
Jan 22nd
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Jan 17th
December 2011
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“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.”
– Tennessee Williams
Dec 28th
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Dec 23rd
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“The desire to write grows with writing.”
– Desiderius Erasmus
Dec 22nd
October 2011
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“I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.”
– Garrison Keillor
Oct 25th
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Oct 18th
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A Lot of Hope and a Little Help for Long-Term Job... →
By Guest Blogger Jennifer Yousfi Business Development Analyst, Sodexo You don’t have to be a pessimist to think the current US job market is bleak. Over 40% of unemployed workers – 6.0 million Americans – have been out of work for six months or more. Yikes! Even the strongest of optimists have to admit times are hard for job-seekers. But there are still open jobs out there – and recruiters...
Oct 10th
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Examiner.com Reviews Tales of Blood and Roses No.... →
Zack Kopp, Denver Books Examiner, reviews Tales of Blood and Roses No. 2, which contains my short story No Pleasure Without Pain. Excerpt: …I guess I know enough by now to say Tales of Blood and Roses… is a zine to set the brains of horror fans on fire. Issue two is 62 pages packed full with  poetry, prose, art, pics and cartoons loosely based around hallmarks of this genre, all...
Oct 7th
September 2011
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Bookgasm Reviews Tales of Blood and Roses No. 2 →
Bookgasm reviews Tales of Blood and Roses No. 2, which includes my short story, No Pleasure Without Pain. Excerpt: More standouts: • Jennifer Yousfi’s “No Pleasure Without Pain,” a tale of a woman whose addiction to pain gets out of control, had a twisty story that had me guessing to the end, and a killer last line
Sep 30th
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Tales of Blood and Roses No. 2 Release Party @... →
Time: Monday, September 19 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm Location: Cyclops Books + Music @ 30 W. North Ave. Baltimore, MD My short story, No Pleasure Without Pain, appears in the second issue of horror fanzine Tales of Blood and Roses.
Sep 15th
July 2011
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Razorcake Reviews Tales of Blood and Roses →
Razorcake reviews the inaugural issue of Tales of Blood and Roses, which includes my short story, That Time of the Month. Excerpt: Tales of Blood and Roses is something of an erotic/horror/goth version of Reader’s Digest. It includes plenty of poems and short stories about encountering ghosts, wolfmen, vampires, and ghouls in the dead of night…
Jul 21st
June 2011
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“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other,...”
– Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Jun 14th
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Jun 3rd
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May 2011
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“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
May 31st
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Tales of Blood and Roses No. 2 →
My short story, No Pleasure Without Pain, will appear in the second issue of horror fanzine Tales of Blood and Roses.  Order now! 
May 25th
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Bookgasm Reviews Tales of Blood and Roses →
Bookgasm reviews the inaugural issue of Tales of Blood and Roses, which includes my short story, That Time of the Month. Excerpt: My favorite stories in this issue are the ones that transcend the genre: • “That Time of the Month” by Jennifer Yousfi, about a woman who discovers that her husband is a werewolf. She suffers for her discovery, and endures in order to keep her family together. But...
May 15th
March 2011
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Baltimore City Paper Reviews Tales of Blood and... →
City Paper reviews the inaugural issue of this new fanzine, which includes my short story, That Time of the Month. Excerpt: The issue warns, “Don’t look for happy endings in these pages,” and makes good on that promise. From a story about a rose breeder with morbid intent to the disturbing tale of a woman whose werewolf husband routinely rapes her, Tales offers enough to keep the mind interested...
Mar 9th
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Mar 9th
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Roctober Reviews Tales of Blood and Roses →
Roctober Magazine reviews the inaugural issue of Tales of Blood and Roses, which includes my short story, That Time of the Month. Excerpt: I hope they get to keep publishing this for the rest of their lives…and beyond!
Mar 1st
February 2011
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Tales of Blood and Roses →
My short story, That Time of the Month, will appear in the inaugural issue of a new horror fanzine, Tales of Blood and Roses. If you would like to purchase your very own copy, which I will shamelessly autograph for you, please do so on the “Order Issues” tab of the website. Fair warning: My story is not for the faint of heart (or easily offended). In fact, it caused an editor to quit after...
Feb 4th
August 2010
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Happy vs Fun
dearoldlove: She might make you happier. But she’ll never be as much fun. (This one was mine.)
Aug 23rd
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“There are no limitations in imagination.”
– Fortune Cookie
Aug 11th
July 2010
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“The best way to lose an argument is to believe there is no argument, that the...”
– Robert C. Pinckert, Author of Pinckert’s Practical Grammar: A Lively, Unintimidating Guide to Usage, Punctuation and Style
Jul 28th
May 2010
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“Today’s action becomes tomorrow’s habit.”
– Fortune Cookie
May 3rd
December 2009
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“Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really...”
– Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986)
Dec 29th
November 2008
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Retail Sales to Suffer in 2009 as U.S. Consumers... →
[Editor’s Note: This is the seventh installment of our “Outlook 2009” series, which is detailing the global investing outlook for 2009.] By Jennifer Yousfi Contributing Writer Money Morning Retail experts are predicting one of the most dismal holiday shopping seasons in decades this year – a crucial stretch that will set the stage for poor retail sales throughout 2009. Story...
Nov 28th
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With its Pension Fund Grab, is it ‘Déjà Vu All... →
By Jennifer Yousfi Contributing Writer Money Morning By grabbing $26 billion in private pension money last month, Argentina may have put itself on track for its second debt default in a decade – ironically, the very situation that country’s government had hoped its bit of leisure-fund larceny had hoped to avoid. Story continues here.
Nov 18th
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Resume
Jennifer Yousfi Contact: jenniferyousfi@gmail.com Qualifications: Detail-oriented, flexible, creative-thinker MBA with over eight years experience in writing, editing and marketing project management. Specializing in RFP response, social media, industry news and analysis.  Education: MBA, General Johns Hopkins University 1999 – 2003 BS, Business Admin. College of Charleston 1994 – 1998 ...
Nov 1st
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