Chica Jo
Mothers' Day: The Exorcism
For Hong So. When you were last with me I was on my Virginia-back-to-Baja flight feeling more whole after an old friend helped me...
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Coddiwomple:
verb /kod’ ә wom pәl/
To travel purposefully towards a vague destination.
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Chica Jo
- Jun 20
- 16 min
What Am I? Part 1: Easter
It all started with a disturbing call from a cherished, childhood friend on Easter Sunday. She was in a Virginia hell-scape while Paul...
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Chica Jo
- Apr 15
- 14 min
An Odd Couple
Well this one’s been a real hum-dinger of a shell to crack. Like non-sequiturs? If you’re in possession of a penis (meaning one is...
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Chica Jo
- Feb 18
- 12 min
TnTnT: Testosterone Tequila and TruckNuts
Which of us would YOU rather face in a dark, back eddy? The one on the left is an angry bull sea lion. The one on the right is,...
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Chica Jo
- Jan 14
- 8 min
Inconceivable? That does mean what you think it means.
Almost 2 years. That's how long it's been since we've heard from Paul. It's not that he's been slacking. He's actually been working on...
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Chica Jo
- Dec 2, 2022
- 10 min
Mid-Age Mutant Ninja Hurdles (Really, Jo?)
Unless you identify as female, or have a female partner, mother, sister, daughter, or close female friend you probably don’t want to read...
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Chica Jo
- Sep 23, 2022
- 10 min
Re-Imagining the Universe *
Disclaimer: Paul just read this piece and said I sound like a coked-up lunatic. I’ve never used cocaine so I don’t know how he’d know...
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Chica Jo
- Jul 18, 2022
- 10 min
FEAR: Getting Bullied
See if you can guess my common denominator in this list: Depression, sharks, heights, visual disarray, cancer, car accidents, loss of my...
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Chica Jo
- Jun 5, 2022
- 8 min
Bullseye Electric Ray: A Real Shocker
You know those rare dreams you wake from and can’t shake off because you know, you just KNOW, that your subconscious was trying to tell...
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Chica Jo
- Apr 27, 2022
- 8 min
A Terrible Place - Part 2 - Out of the Blue
As another sunset approached our anchorage at super-wild Isla San Pedro Mártir, and the birds began to return to their roosts for the...
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Chica Jo
- Apr 20, 2022
- 8 min
A Terrible Place: Part 1 - Into the Blue
terrible (adj.): late 14c., "causing terror, awe, or dread; frightful," from Old French terrible (12c.), from Latin terribilis...
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Chica Jo
- Mar 24, 2022
- 8 min
The Monkey on My Back
I swear, I was just minding my own business, doing my early-morning, power swim around a rocky point off the Seri people’s now...
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Chica Jo
- Feb 1, 2022
- 10 min
The Troll
Do you remember the children’s story, The Three Billy Goats Gruff? Basically, three goats are longing to feast in the greener grass on...
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Chica Jo
- Dec 22, 2021
- 7 min
Sand Dollars - On Ballast and Buoyancy
I failed at something not only important to me but to my sense of identity as a citizen-scientist and environmental educator. I’ve been...
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Chica Jo
- Nov 10, 2021
- 9 min
Losing My $#!+
One of my operative rules for myself when writing is to be profoundly honest even if, no, especially if it is difficult. Well, this one...
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Chica Jo
- Oct 7, 2021
- 13 min
To Die Laughing
Yep. That’s how I reckon I’ll go out of this absurd world: in a fit of uncontrollable guffaws that become my final gasps. I’ve had some...
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Chica Jo
- Aug 8, 2021
- 5 min
Aquanaut Moms
I’m writing under a chlorophyll-filled canopy of redwood trees, but my mind is on something I found on the beach near La Paz this spring....
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Chica Jo
- Jul 16, 2021
- 5 min
Night Snorkel? What could go wrong?
I’m afraid to write this. I’m worried that if I’m not writing about a jaw-dropping, edge-of-your-seat encounter with large and loveable...
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Chica Jo
- Jun 11, 2021
- 4 min
Turning Ugliness Into Beauty
Keep Reading To Find Out What This Is It’s been an interesting few weeks since my underwater dance with a humpback whale (plus escape...
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Chica Jo
- May 28, 2021
- 9 min
Save the Whale: An Existential Tangle
This blog post is coming from Paul at Triplefin's helm. He has a breathtaking story to tell about something that just happened. You may...
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