I was so firmly ensconced in Team Ponyboy that when I saw the movie version of “The Outsiders” in 1985, my loyalties immediately set up in the C. Thomas Howell camp. In fact, it wouldn’t…
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.
Somebody’s baby
Since today was Liam’s last day at Aunt Jodi’s Supergenius Daycare (a new nanny starts Monday), we decided to do it up big. There were slushies and cheese curds and lots of Ziggy playing and…
An Exclamation to English conversion chart for the puncuationally challenged
My “friend” Wolfdogg (the quotation marks are intentional and if you could change your relationship status with your friends on Facebook his would be “friends: but under review for behavior unbecoming”) pointed to this delightful…
Delivering noise & real tough boys
Reading Bob Mould’s autobiography, See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody, is a little like indulging someone you adore as they tell you about a dream they had about you last night….
A heartfelt apology delivered years too late
Dear Thomptos, Hansons, Trunnells, Daleys, Deppes, and everyone else in the vicinity of 121st Ave. NE and Davenport in Blaine, Minnesota during the mid-80s, Please accept my dearest and most sincere apologies for being so…
Very many Arthurs and all of them good
The novelist Arthur Phillips had me when the character Arthur Phillips mentioned the Minneapolis Star back when Minneapolis was a two-paper town. I have no idea why this small bit of Minnesota trivia charmed me…