Ashley Jones – Poet, Novelist, and Playwright

Ashley practices family law, including divorce, adoption and ARTS. She strives to understand her clients’ goals, and what is most important to them.

Distance running was a battle against instabilities. Collisions on the soccer field or during cross-country runs intensified her phantom pain. She promised herself she would not have a relationship with any member of the Barden Bellas.

Ashley Jones

Ashley Jones is an award-winning poet, novelist, and playwright. Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies including POETRY, New York Times, The Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, Quiet Lunch, Kinfolks Quarterly, Steel Toe Review, Fjords Review: Black American Edition, PMSPoemMemoirStory, and in the forthcoming anthology Like a Girl: Perspectives on Femininity (Little Moose Press). Her memoir, The Girl from Jonesboro, was awarded the 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. She has also been nominated as a Pushcart Prize nominee and her short story “The Boy Next Door” was included in the Best American Poetry 2014 series.

She was born in Memphis and grew up in Houston, Texas. She graduated from Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and from Pepperdine University in Malibu, where she studied with renowned theatre professor Craig T. Nelson. She has performed at the Alley Theatre in Houston and in Los Angeles, including a staged reading of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal and the comedy Writer’s Block. She was married to Noah Nelson, a writer, from 2002-2009.

She is currently a cast member on the History Channel’s Swamp People. She lives in Brandon, Mississippi. She credits her husband with bringing her back to life after a deep depression caused by a miscarriage years ago. He introduced her to hunting and that’s how she met her fellow gator hunter, Ronnie Adams, on the show.

Jones has spoken on the topic of finding meaning in work at UC Berkeley and other events, including The Women’s Purpose Retreat. Rollings Funeral Conference. Conscious Capitalism Sum + Substance. She is a member of the Momento board, a non profit that creates grief resources for free and supports teams at work through grief and empathy training.

She has appeared in numerous films and TV shows, most recently as Dr. Bridget Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful. She has also been in True Blood, where she played Daphne Landry. She is a two-time Daytime Emmy nominee for her role as Megan Dennison Viscardi on The Young and the Restless. She has been with The Young and the Restless since its inception in 1996.

Pitch Perfect

A cappella is a weird little niche in culture. Pitch Perfect is an odd comedy that has had a big impact. This film is not only funny but also has an infectious soundtrack. It’s a ray or sunshine in the cinematic world. The film is not without its critics who have a range of complaints from the predictable to absurd. The talented cast includes Anna Kendrick Rebel Wilson and Brittany Snow.

Kendrick does a good job of keeping the film grounded in reality, though the story itself is not always believable. Kay Cannon, adapting Mickey Rapkin’s 2008 nonfiction book Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory, is clearly trying to distance the film from Glee but still ends up muddled some key plot points (it’s not clear, for instance, why the Bellas decided to make room for shapelier singers; their loss in a competition had nothing to do with the projectile vomiting incident).

Pitch Perfect is an entertaining movie that will appeal to many people. Teens and 20-somethings will be social networking about it even after the movie ends, and it is sure to become a hit at the box office. It is reminiscent of a good episode Glee with its quirky characters and their cheeky lines. There is also something to be said about portraying young women in college as real misfits.

The film also contains crude language and some sexual material. The main character is a lesbian, and the movie contains homophobic humor. MOVIEGUIDE warns parents not to let their teenagers watch this film. Also, the movie includes a song with the lyrics “Got a problem with my thighs,” which is not appropriate for younger viewers. The movie is rated PG-13.