Wade Salem is a drifty, drug-dealing, storytelling, sometime musician. He’s fascinating, if you can experience him from a distance. He’s not the man you’d want as your father-figure, which is the case for the unnamed…
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.
Ode to Dawson’s Cryface
You can have your National Geographic girl with the mesmerizing eyes. That raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. You can even have that one from Tiananmen Square of the protester standing up to the…
The scandalous mermaid
Whenever The Tibbles are given the choice of what they want for lunch they choose The Hong Kong Buffet, your typical, strip-mall Chinese food buffet here in Shakopee. They love the place. From the crystal…
Trying to stand up to the neighborhood bully
I’m a large FORTY!-year-old 6’5″ woman. The word intimidating has been used to be describe me on about 381 kajillion occasions. The people who use that word have said I’m both physically and intellectually intimidating….
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
If Salman Rushdie’s Ground Beneath Her Feet had been, oh, about 400 pages instead of 592 pages, I’d probably have loved the crap out of it. It’s got everything I love in a book: a…
I Will Dare turns 12 years old today
And on this day in the year 2000 a blog was born. It weighed in at 13 words, 0 captial letters, and 1 Replacements’ reference. Two, if you count the blog’s name. I Will Dare…