“I need a new check card.” “Was your card lost or stolen?” The friendly US Bank customer service rep said. “No.” “. . . ” “See I got a new one because the old one…
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.
The Gum Thief
Remember how excited I was about reading Douglas Coupland’s The Gum Thief? Yeah, that dried up and blew away leaving a vague sense of disappointment behind. What we have here is an epistolary (god I…
I’d wear Superman underwear anyway
I was helping The Tibbles put on their pajamas before going downstairs to watch “the ghost movie” with the lights off and eat Nutter Butters (the ghost movie they were demanding? Casper Meets Wendy). “Why…
The words I thought I brought, I left behind
In the past four weeks or so I’ve seen Andrew Bird and Neko Case live for the first time ever. I saw Paul Westerberg sing and talk about his music. However, nothing has filled my…
I was a Fresia girl
If you had a signature Bath & Body Works flavor, you have to go read the plumeria incident of the late ’90s.
An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England
I just counted and I’ve read (or attempted to read, some of the books I chose were so bad I stopped [Fifth Business and that awful, horrible fucking Freebird book]) forty-one books so far this…