So today Weezer’s “Blue Album” is twenty years old. I cannot let any of the anniversaries of my personal cultural touchstones go unremarked. This is one of the advantages of making it to fortysomething. You…
Posts Published by Jodi Chromey
Everything the light touches is my kingdom. Well, at least where this website is concerned. There's an about me section if you are so inclined to know things. All the posts were written by me. I have a lot of words.
Sometimes I Forget It’s Not 2003
I am typing this one-handed at 9:01 p.m. on this thunderstormy Thursday. I’m using the other hand to shove a peanut butter & jelly sandwich into my gaping maw. It is the first of a…
Things I Believe I Deserve a Major Award For
The awkward construction of that headline. Writing fiction two days in a row like some kind of fiction writer. Today I crested 21,000 words on The Beast v2. Emptying the dishwasher when the only dirty…
Nice & Good, but Not Exciting
I’ve spent the past year or so gobbling up books by and about female singers. Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart, Pat Benatar, The Runaways, and now you can add Rosanne Cash’s Composed to the…
Unnecessarily Name Droppy
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine is one of those novels I should have enjoyed way more than I did. A book-loving woman in her twilight years reminiscing about her life, loves, and reads? Sign…
Somehow Only the 2nd Best Thing to Happen This Week
I am all out of giddy anticipation. I am exhausted by upcoming potential. My heart cannot take anymore shaky-hearted joy. The very same week The Replacements announce a homecoming show, also happens to be the…