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He Wanted To Beat The Wicked Out Of Me With A Bible

the jodi — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:08:33 +0000

If life was a horror movie, this’d be the scene when the audience starts screaming at the stupid white girl “No! Don’t go in there!” and then laughs when she does, cause they can hear the scary/monster/slasher music that she can’t hear, and they know.

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Middle Aged Lazy: Naked

the jodi — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 20:56:53 +0000

There was a time when I looked better naked than I did clothed. I was...

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Let’s Talk About Sex

the jodi — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:52:59 +0000

Do you even wonder what if the one that got away, came back? Forty years after my one that got away, got away, he called again.

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Do strippers ever get over being strippers?

the jodi — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 12:10:42 +0000

Some jobs are so distinct from the rest of the world, that the rules of conduct and survival are different. We were a closed community, we had to be.

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Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work and Life

the jodi — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 17:08:02 +0000

Sexwork & Stripping. On & off stage, under the lights or in the dark; back in the day, until today. For me, it would never as good as the first time.

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Growing Up Under Roe v Wade

the jodi — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 13:14:40 +0000

When Roe v. Wade passed in 1973, my life was a mess. An alcoholic and addict in the embryonic stages, my virtue had already been compromised despite growing up in a “good” suburban home. Life without birth control would have made me a teenaged mother. Life without abortion would left me a drug-addicted mother with an infant that needed to detox in the NICU, whose survival was threatened just by living with me.

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Big Protects Little

the jodi — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 20:15:25 +0000

Ma has an active social life, in her sleep. The line between sleep and waking is porous; she can spend a day waiting on someone that can never show up, like an eight-year-old waiting up for Santa.

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Caregiving Dementia: A Moving Target

the jodi — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:45:43 +0000

When I don't know where I'm going, it's best to start, not at the beginning, but where I am. Except, for someone with dementia or caregiving for a loved one with dementia, where you are is a moving target.

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Make the Hard Calls

the jodi — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:47:00 +0000

Dementia steals your memory and your life, the progression slowly peeling away who you were. It is not, however, contagious. Nothing is contagious via the telephone. Uncomfortable making that phone call? Try shuffling through life in her slippers for a while.

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What Sticks to the Wall

the jodi — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:48:12 +0000

Q: What do alcoholics and addicts say all the time? / A: Leave me alone, I'm not hurting anyone but myself.

Even after thirty years of twelve steps, I'd been underestimating the impact I had on her life. Then our lives were thrown against a wall of dementia like a handful of spaghetti, and I got to see what stuck.

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