I’m sitting in the Dunn Bros in EP at a table for five, alone. The place is pretty busy and each new coffee drinker who spies me sitting at the table shoots me a dirty…
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.
Prince and Liz Phair on the Dating Game
So I was on the Dating Game but instead of three bachelors, I had a bachelor and a bachelorette. One was Prince and the other was Liz Phair. They answered all my questions with each…
Marjane Satrapi Reading in Twin Cities
Marjane Satrapi, the author and artist behind the phenomenal Persepolis, is going to be giving a talk at Century College in White Bear Lake on Thursday, April 10. I cannot even begin to express how…
Productive procrastination
With my short story due in a few days, I have spent the seven of the last thirteen hours bent over my computer. It seems that after a month of ignoring it, I have decided…
Things That Fall From the Sky
I really love Kevin Brockmeier’s writing. In fact, I’d probably go as far to say that his short story “The Ceiling” would make my list of the Ten Best Short Stories Ever. It’s a bold…
Where I become the girl who cries at poetry readings
I cried at a poetry reading tonight. I cried. At a poetry reading. It bears repeating because, seriously who actually cries at a poetry reading? I don’t even like poetry, really. It’s anarchy and chaos…