From the category archives:
1993: I sat across from my psychiatrist. She never wore the same shoes twice. She asked me a lot of questions about my childhood. She asked me if I’d ever thought of harming my son in any way. I was horrified by the thought of hurting my baby boy. It had never occurred to me. [...]
' January 1st, 2010 at 12:11am 9 comments
Last week I found out that one of my former coworkers had committed suicide. I went through this whole range of emotions. He was only 25. I had been planning on calling him to wish him a Happy Birthday as it’s just days away, but that day will pass and 25 he shall remain forever.
I [...]
I’m certainly not the only one who danced with her siblings on the coffee table day after day, inspired by the Jackson Five, practicing my singing and my dance moves wearing just my stocking feet. I’m not, right? My brother dropped out of our band after the first rehearsal, my eldest sister was soon to [...]
' June 27th, 2009 at 02:41am 2 comments
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After my abysmal fishing performance at the GI Joe fishing school my dad set his mind to spending the weekends taking me to various liquid spots to practice. We went to rivers, lakes, and even to the ocean, where I quickly learned to [...]
' May 7th, 2009 at 06:49am 4 comments
I came around the corner fast, a woman with a purpose, looking up long enough to see him approaching me. I backtracked and hid beside the closed antique shop, my heart in my stomach, jerking wildly about in the same fashion of that one time I got the Thai food funk from the sizzling [...]
' April 8th, 2009 at 05:32am 12 comments