only the jodi

A search for simplicity, sobriety, compassion, & the right man. Or at least not another wrong man.
May 24th, 2009

goat mind

Something has changed.

I’ve caged the squirrels, quieted my monkey mind and let disorder take over. My life has become rumple, untidy, messy. I have become, a Goat.       Read the rest of this entry »

April 22nd, 2009

happily never after

I don’t know about little boys, hell, it becomes more and more apparent each day that I don’t know much about grown mens either, but I do know about little girls and how we’re raised. No matter what kind of home you came from you were served fairytales. There’ve been a million essays, books & magazine articles written about it and I’m not here to reinvent the wheel. I’m here to talk about my fairytale, the fantasy that shaped my dating life.

Everyone knows the core basics.

    Cinderella finds a prince with a foot fetish
    Sleeping Beauty is saved from a lifetime of dwarves by a somophiliac prince
    Snow White is saved by a necrophiliac
    Hansel & Gretel are abandoned by their parents
    The Ugly Ducking is too wierd for friends or love

Disney makes a fortune telling those stories slightly differently. While any one of them is bad enough, none of them were mine.

I roll to Beauty & the Beast. I’m spending a lot of painful Thursday mornings trying to change that sentence from present to past tense.     Read the rest of this entry »

April 3rd, 2009

tag, you’re it

I’m a total critter chick. Given the choice, I’ll almost always choose four legs over two. It could be my superhero name. Critter chick. Louder than a yapping puppy. More powerful than cat dander. Able to pet four dogs with a single hand. Look! There on the curb! It’s a dog. It’s a cat. It’s Critter Chick! I lean toward the furry & the feathered, but am not opposed to the smooth or scaly either. Cockroaches and waterbugs, however, are on their own.

I can’t pass up a happy dog and the sad ones break my heart, so I couldn’t keep walking when I found Dog tied to a standpipe, shaking, scared, his bones sticking through his skin & fur. He tried to stand but his back legs were so weak, he shook & shook and would maybe get a few steps, then collapse. No collar. No tags. Just fear, old age & bones.    Read the rest of this entry »