"No," I moaned when I drug myself out of bed at 5:30 this morning. Having had about 3 hours of sleep each of the past 3 nights, I...
Katie's Family & The New Van
"Did they tell you they got a van?" Brother slurred when I finally reached him on his birthday. He didn't answer my initial c...
Settled
"Can I come to your home?" she asked, brown eyes sad. I paused in my hurry toward my next meeting and turned to face her with con...
I guess you had to be there.
Wry Amusement I joined Facebook to keep track of my grad school friends. We scattered far and wide and it seemed wise to all keep our conta...
Practice makes perfect.
You’d think I’d be better at it. Yet the situation continues to leave me breathless, chest tight and swallowing against nausea, each time i...
Week in Review
Today “January 18, 1979,” I recited promptly and waited while he typed in his computer. “Thank you,” I smiled when he said my prescription ...
Never Again
When I get very, very angry, I use that phrase. "Never again," I sometimes seethe. Other times leave me sighing those two words....
Survivor's Guilt
Sibling likes to use analogies. "Let's say we're comparing french fries and Chinese food," she said at one point during a...
Cost, Benefit, Balance
I jumped when he yelled, blinking at him in surprise even as his attention was directed elsewhere. I’d been told Best got upset, but – in t...
What a difference a day makes.
I wrote - and deleted - an entire story about how someone had wronged me. I even sent an email that said something like "This was gros...
Year One
"I suddenly realized, bringing my attention to the meeting going on and away from the trees outside the window earlier this afternoon, ...
Extended
I think it started when Adam called me a monkey. He grinned when my mouth dropped open in shocked indignation and took a drink of his soda ...
Randomly
I have awakened at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning for more nights than I can recall. It's a mixture of bad dreams, thinking I heard a nois...
Keeps Getting Worse
"We manufacture these!" I seethed, having poking at buttons and wiggling cables for the last two hours. "And we can't ge...