this woman’s work

Want a pretty song?

Feb 15, 2005 The Story of My Life

You can download my friend’s beautiful song, Kristine’s Lullaby either by clicking that link right there that I just put in here or by going to The Official Jodi Shaw Web Page.

Who is Jodi Shaw, I hear you asking? Besides being a brilliant singer/songwriter, Jodi is also a friend of mine from Portland.

Here’s my “How I Met Jodi” story.

First off, Jodi is really beautiful. She looks like a J. Crew model with a fabulous swimmer’s physique (she swam competitively) and a fresh, clean face — no make-up required. I was totally intimidated by her because she’s also very tall so she really could be a J. Crew model. What I usually try to do when I’m intimidated by someone who I’m going to have to live with in some way is make friends with them. So when I found out the new night RA at the shelter was this fabulous-looking woman, I decided that if I liked her, I wouldn’t have to feel all jealous of her gorgeousness and would instead be like, “I’m so happy for Jodi, because she is gorgeous inside and out!” or some such schlock.

(This works, this technique. It makes jealousy fade pretty damn quick.)

So it turns out that Jodi is also really smart — she graduated from Smith College on her swimming scholarship. She’s also funny. And she’s good at every single damn thing she ever tries to do. She decided to work in computer graphics and got into a competitive computer graphics program. She graduated and then decided to be a poet and got into a high-falutin’ MFA program. Then she decided to learn to play guitar, write music and sing and lo and behold — well, download the song and you’ll see.

She also taught me a lot about feminism — she always challenged my thinking.

Jodi also took in my cat, Colette, when we left Portland (my mom said we were welcome to stay but the cat — who had been with me longer than Bret had — was not) and she threw us our baby shower when I was pregnant with Noah.

I have other Jodi stories but Madison is hanging on my shirt tail so I’m hitting post.

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