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How I Feel Good About Myself Even Though I’m Making $0.00

Hey Darling Ones, It’s surprisingly hard to feel good about yourself when you’re not able to make enough money to support yourself. Not impossible, just difficult. I blame capitalism and the patriarchy. To be fair, those two along with racism are to blame for most problems. Since I’ve made $0.00 so far this year I’m struggling with what exactly the point of me is, which is sad in more ways than one. Was the point of me pre-stroke to make…

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Poor, Poor

Hola Darling Ones, How are you? Is Spring springing where you are? It is here and I’m giving it 90% of the credit for why I keep passing the open windows. The other 10% goes to Valerie June’s “Owls, Omens, and Oracles” record mostly for the song “Joy, Joy!” and a little for that Oxford comma in the title. It’s not been the best week here at Supergenius HQ. It started with a dental emergency and ended with doing my…

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Jason Isbell in the Court of Spinster Opinion

Greetings Darling Ones, How are you? I’ve spent most of March hiding out from my economic anxiety and doing my best to ignore the fascist overthrow of the United States with varying degree of success. Lately, I’ve been filling my days writing fan fiction in my head about the relationship between Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires, and Anna Weyant. If you don’t know these people, that’s okay neither do I. This fan fiction is based on Isbell’s excellent new record “Foxes…

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It’s All Coming Back to Me Now

Hola Darling Ones, How are you? It been ages since I’ve written. My silence is funk related. Current events + personal economic insecurity makes Jodi a dull girl. There’s about three half-written posts in the hopper, but I haven’t mustered up the gumption to finish them. I will though, because I’ve been spending every afternoon for the past two weeks arguing with Jason Isbell in my head and the world needs to know about it. Plus, maybe if I get…

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Stroke Me Day 731: Happy 2nd Strokeaversary to Me

Dear Darling Ones, Both the March 6ths when I woke up with nothing newly catastrophic happening in my body have been a great joy. It’s been two years since I woke up to everything inside my body feeling not right, sure I had stroke. For the official record, I’m not one of the six or seven male first responders believed me and I had to have a friend take me to the ER. I wish all the annoying inconveniences on…

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Appreciation 2.25

My handwriting practice it includes the alphabet, my name, and the phrase "this is my happy place."

Hola Darling Ones, Every month I vow to work on this post throughout the month so my eyes & Floppy Scoop don’t eet pooped out from all the typing and reading. Every month I do not do that. But hope springs eternal, so maybe next month? Matthew Sweet Recovers from Stroke at Madonna I’ve watched this video of Sweet’s stroke recovery process about 12 times since my friend Robin shared it with me. Each time I get a little shaky…

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