in Hermit Truths on by Jodi Chromey

Nearly Crushed Under the Weight of My Own Hypocrisy

Hi Darling Ones, Even though I present myself here as a flawless Spinster Goddess comprised of warm soup, soft breasts, and sparkles, I do have. few flaws. Amongst them is procrastination and impatience. Oh, and hypocrisy. Yesterday my mom texted me while I was making lunch (breakfast burritos, if you must know). After I was done chopping, sautéing, seasoning, scrambling, and shaping my burritos, I noticed her text. She wanted to know if she could come over because she needed…

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in Books Supergenius HQ on by Jodi Chromey

Too Crabby to Write a Proper Headline

Hi Darling Ones, I don’t know about you, but this week has been a drag. I’m lethargic, alternately bored and unmotivated. I give this week two thumbs down and a long, sustained fart noise. Work has been a nightmare. My favorite show, Top Chef, had its finale last night and it was disappointing. And Wendell? Wendell, the vengeance demon I share my house with, woke me at 5:30 this morning chasing a moth around my room. About an hour ago…

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in Hermit Truths on by Jodi Chromey

Welcome to the Jungle, It Gets Worse Here Every Day

Oh Darling Ones, My heart is shaky with rage. I am incandescent with fury. Bill Cosby raped, assaulted, or molested sixty women and has walked free on a technicality. I don’t know what angers me more, how much this country hate women or how there is no actual justice in the American legal system. Every time something like this is in the news every woman you know is re-traumatized be the sexual assault/harassment/molestation she’s endured. All of them. Trust me,…

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in Hermit Truths on by Jodi Chromey

If a Cabbage Patch Kid Mated with a Mean Turtle

Dear Darling Ones, For the first half of my career I worked on and off with a woman named Linda who used to ask her clients & contractors “What keeps you up at night?” She was asking it to find out what was stressing people out about work so she could figure out how to help. I rarely answered her honestly because work only kept me up for a few years in the early aughts. The things that keep me…

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in Hermit Truths Sister Club on by Jodi Chromey

One Foot in the Door, the Other One in the Grave

Friends, Romans, Darling Ones, lend me your ears, It is 6:01 p.m. on Monday the 28th of June as I type this. I’ve already eaten dinner. To be perfectly honest, I ate dinner four Hi-Chews, a quicky work assignment, and one spin of “Bastards of Young” ago. Now that I have my grave sorted out now I gotta eat dinner around the five o’clock hour and go to bed at 8:30. You read that right, I got a place where…

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in Music Relationships on by Jodi Chromey

Cerebral

Hi Darling Ones, Did you miss me terribly? Having my family here was delightful and exhausting. They left yesterday morning and I’m still recovering. The only things I’ve managed to do since this weekend is eat, sleep, read, and listen to Lucy Dacus’ new record Home Video. My actual record hasn’t arrived yet even though it allegedly shipped on June 21st, and I’m a little salty. According to Instagram I’m the only person on the planet who has not gotten…

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