Books and Works in Progress

Jody’s Books and Works in Progress

Jody’s collection of humorous and inspirational essays about childhood, growing up, and the multidirectional roads sometimes taken on the path to adulthood.

First 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

Soon to be re-released in e-book format with a new Preface.

An eclectic group of small-town misfits join forces to restore an all but abandoned century-old structure and end up renovating more than just the building.

In Progress

Somebody Knows Something: Inside Iowa Cold Cases

What happens to the lives of those left behind once a loved one’s case goes cold?

Coming Spring 2012

She’s met them all: Obama, Biden, Clinton (both of them), Kerry, Edwards, Richardson, and others like them. While a guest on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, she chastised a sitting president. She introduced a young son to a US Senator and watched, mortified, as the boy scowled and looked down toward the floor rather than shake the senator’s extended hand. She’s learned that hosting meet ‘n greets in one’s home necessitates a pet sitter for three forlorn howling hounds unfairly relegated to the upstairs bedroom.

Kids, Dogs & Democrats Running Wild: Campaigning for Sanity in Iowa is a seriocomic roller-coaster ride through America’s Heartland with a front row seat in what it’s really like juggling family, career, and candidates in the First in the Nation Caucus State.

In Progress

Cover of 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 — the one he always called “Old Bear” — his finger on the trigger. I both feared and admired 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.