I did my taxes today. It hurt. My standard of living is going to take a decided turn toward the pauperesque for the next few months. This is partly due to the giant tax check…
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.
2 parts SVH + 1 part WTF
When Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later arrived on my doorstep Monday afternoon, I was more than a little excited. It was the first time in my, er 26-year Sweet Valley career that I didn’t…
The best thing to lose sleep over
This was the view from the desk at the Continuing Education building on the UofM campus in St. Paul. A few of the things I witnessed during the seventeen hours I was perched behind the…
Little House, Dawson’s Creek & the evolution of language
This is the inscription inside the cover of my copy of Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I cropped it out, but my phone number was on there too. Only seven…
O Swamplandia!
Endings are hard. As a writer I’ve never managed to write a decent one. I blame that on Journalism school and inverted pyramid where we were taught to sort of quit rather than bring a…
A tale of two Top 25 lists
Every year round near the Ides of March, I go into iTunes, select all, and then choose reset playlist, but not before I make a playlist of the year’s Top 25 Most Played songs. I…