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Jody's collection of humorous and inspirational essays about childhood, growing up, and the multidirectional roads sometimes taken on the path to adulthood.
Published by R & E Publishers (February 1992)
Saratoga, CA
Reprinted by Ultramarine Publishing Company
Hastings on Hudson, New York
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10: 0882478931
ISBN-13: 978-0882478937
She's met them all: Obama, Biden, Clinton (both of them), Edwards, Richardson,
and others like them. While a guest on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, she chastised a sitting president. And in between political
Meet 'n Greets and researching Iowa cold cases, she's demonstrating
for house guests how she taught the three family dogs to do a police
line-up or answering a call to familial duty.
Kids, Dogs & Democrats Running Wild: Campaigning for Sanity in Iowa is a seriocomic roller-coaster ride through America's Heartland, where one
writer gets off only long enough to attend family reunions, committee
meetings, weddings and funerals, feed dogs and a Pilot-to-Bombardier
phone-ringing parrot, face family tragedies and applaud triumphs,
and perhaps even revel over another hard won day in a life moving
all too fast.
In Progress - More Details Soon
Jody on "Pull" ...
When I visualize my late [first] father, his image never changes. A yellow shooting
shirt with a padded right shoulder. Khaki pants with sewn cuffs. Old
worn cowboy boots but a crisp tan Stetson tilted low on his brow.
He's leaning into the 12-gauge, his finger on the trigger. I both
admired and feared him, but never considered him vulnerable. He first
proved me wrong the summer of '69. "Pull" is based on the incident that taught me love wears many hats.
The true crime cold case story of the July 10, 1955 kidnapping, rape and brutal murder of 22-month-old Donna Sue Davis of Sioux City, Iowa.
Book in Progress
