About Jodi
Hello, I’m Jodi Chromey and my hair only looks this cool about twice a year (the days I actually get it done). I’m a writer and supergenius who lives in the Twin Cities metro area of Minnesota in a house I call Supergenius HQ with my two cats and more books than any single woman really needs.
I Will Dare was born July 31, 2000, mostly because I wanted to. There is no better explanation than that. Since then, I’ve updated this site nearly every day, became the mastermind behind the Paul Westerberg blog, the editor of the super rad Minnesota Reads book review blog, and was called “bold and fearless” by Kathleen Turner in her memoir Send Yourself Roses.
Besides writing this blog, I also write short stories that are as yet unpublished and work as a freelance copywriter and blogger. If you’re looking for a writer, I’m totally for hire.
When I first started doing About pages, I would just list a bunch of things about myself and base the number of things on my age. For instance, I think the first one was called 29 things. Since old habits die hard:
37 Things
- My cats are named Madison and Paco
- At 6’5″ I’m unusually tall for a woman
- No, I never played basketball
- Yes, my parents are both tall (mom = 5’10″, biological father = 6’2″)
- I really hate the number five and you will see that often there is no five
- No, my three younger sisters are not tall. I have a different father
- The weather up here is swell
- My truck is named Ruby, my iPod is named Eurydice, my iPhone is called Ziggy and I have three computers called Gideon, Ogden, and Big Betty
- Though I am single and have no children I spend an awful lot of time with my niece Jaycie and my nephews Max, Cade, Nolan, and Liam
- I kind of have heartburn right now, because I had a lot of jalapenos with dinner
- Things guaranteed to make me cry: national anthems, marching bands, standing ovations, and beautiful writing
- I brush my teeth without my shirt on for fear of drooling on it
- I collect books, wheat pennies, and burnt sienna crayons
- When I started I Will Dare, I used to only write in lowercase letters
- If I could I’d go back in time, I’d kick my own ass for being so annoying
- James Madison is my favorite former president
- I named my cat after him
- I was born 6.6.72 at 6:36 p.m.
- Six is my favorite number
- I often say inflammatory and absurd things because it makes me laugh
- Like, for instance, poetry is bullshit
- One of my favorite things to do on earth is argue
- When I was younger I wanted to grow up to be a cowgal, a waitress, a ballerina, or a babysitter
- I have a penchant for redheads, Diet Coke with lime, Peanut M&Ms, and pens with blue ink
- I am afraid of heights, being forgotten, and driving in the winter
- When I was younger I would obsessively catalog my Sweet Valley High books
- I often suffer from insomnia and have since I was a kid
- I have six tattoos
- Oftentimes I forget that I am capable of being loved
- I lied to Facebook so they would change my username
- I told them that I got divorced and that Willdare was my married name and Chromey is my maiden name
- I wear glasses most of time
- I don’t wear a watch
- Or makeup
- My favorite color is orange
- For someone who has been blogging about the inane detail of my everyday life for over nine years, I’m sure having a tough time with this list
- I just realized that for the oh, year or so this list has been up I didn’t close the list tag (shame on me)
vikrant
April 19th 2010 - 4:54am
hi jodi i like to be your friend.
vikrant
April 19th 2010 - 4:57am
i like tall women but i felt women dont like guys who r small .i love ur comment people i like to be part of this group
Theologian
May 12th 2010 - 11:52am
Hi Jodi.
I write with a Loft query:
I want to take a workshop this summer. I’ve only had Vodo (just by schedule, not by aversion or attraction), and I met your little guy workshoping guy (is it Dale?), but neither are slated for this summer, whose workshop I’ve wanted to take. Without those possibilities, I’m considering Amanda Coplin, “Intermediate Fiction Workshop” (Mondays) or Benjamin Obler, “Literary Fiction: Everyday Drama.” The former is my preference by the topic and description, but I’m semi-wedded these days (a great gift) and Dave’s kid schedule makes the latter easier. (We have only Monday and Tuesday evenings sans kid.)
I write to ask if you have any dope about or experience of the classes or the teachers.
XO, Martin
Jodi
May 12th 2010 - 11:56am
Martin!
Congrats on the semi-weddedness. I vote you take a Tuesday class. I’m taking the short short fiction on Tuesday nights 6-8 with someone whose name I forgot but I can’t wait! If you take a Tuesday class we can go to Grumpy’s occasionally.
I pondered the Monday class with Amanda Coplin, but the Tuesday works better for me.
Jodi
July 22nd 2010 - 4:58pm
I’ve often wondered why there was no “Hurricane Jodi”. Nothing too serious, just some huge threatening circular cloud that would die out somewhere over the Bermuda Triangle finding Amelia Earhart and Jimmy Hoffa having cocktails. I read your list with some amusement. For my Goddaughter’s 18th B-Day I wrote her “18 Things About Being 18″ i.e. “Perky Breasts…Enjoy Them While You Can”;”You Make Middle-Aged Women Nervous”; “Soon You Won’t Need a GPS Because You’ll Be Able To Read The Lines On Your Face”, etc. I wrapped each note around a Bugs-Bunny-type carrot because every girl should have 18 carats on her 18th Birthday (I challenge you to find 18 “long-stemmed” carrots in December…in Oregon). Anyway, it made me wonder what my own list would be and I came up with two: (1) I was born on 3/30 @ 3:30 (2):I voted for Ronald Regan in my 1st Presidential Election. He was shot by John Hinkley (my initials are also J.H.) on my birthday, because of his obsession with a woman named Jodi(e).If you have any sightings of “Hurricane Jodi” on Lake Superior, be sure to give me a call. Should She be spotted on the Pacific Ocean next to Coos Bay, OR feel free to stop by, I’ll keep the blender warm. I cannot yet receive e-mail due to the antiquity of my computer. Oh well, there’s always the U.S. Post (P.O. Box 5679/Charleston, OR 97420) Send a post card….I get lonely. All Best, Jodi