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Remember pagers? Oh, I’ve been paged! Now I need to get to a phone.
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With summer nearing its end my teens seem to want to spend every last second doing either nothing, or hanging out with friends. I feel a rush inside, things to get ready for that probably have already been taken care of. Polly [...]
' August 24th, 2009 at 01:23pm 2 comments
In the days since I last posted here, boy have I slipped back down. It seems like one thing after another. The washing machine broke; we were able to scrounge up the money to buy a used one, and then the dryer broke. Our kids asked when we were going to get a new one [...]
' August 5th, 2009 at 08:40pm 6 comments
I sat on the edge of the worn green couch, sipping warm black coffee and trying to remember how to make small talk. I tried to remind myself that I had to do this. I had to meet the parents and visit their homes before I could just leave my child there to play.
After we [...]
' June 18th, 2009 at 06:18pm Add comment
He didn’t live his life in complete darkness; he had one sixty watt bulb that he took with him from room to room, as needed. When his wife left him she left the coffeemaker but took the only can opener. He opened his coffee can with an ax, and then called me to [...]
' April 23rd, 2009 at 01:56am 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