Stylized line drawing of author J.B. Vettori's initials made into a butterfly logo with a smiling face on a beige background.

Poet Reporter

A different kind of reporting, through the eyes of a poet.

The Fringes
Jody Vettori Jody Vettori

The Fringes

Restaurants are a great side hustle for writers. Personally, I waited tables through five U.S. states, for well over a decade of my life. And I’ve seen this scenario countless times: Someone enters a restaurant, usually with a group of people, and immediately launches into a verbal tirade about how they’re going to have a bad experience. Let’s call this person Bill, for no other reason than he needs a name…

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Raising Spirits
Jody Vettori Jody Vettori

Raising Spirits

If an old job of yours had a reunion, would you go?

I was just telling my mom that class reunions are fine and all and all but what we really need is a reunion of our favorite jobs. (Not like a company picnic, unless the picnic had spiked punch and knife-throwing contests.) …

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