Condemned to death. Seeking a path away from pain with booze, Xanax, crystal, oxy, heroin. Street drugs, prescriptions…like the mythical lotus eaters, the addicts feast until they forget their homelands. They forget who they are. Addiction is a scourging, it comes with a crown of thorns and a crucifixion. At first, seeking relief from pain: the […]
Monthly Archives: March 2012
How can she bear to fold his Levis, one last time? What to do with the Adidas he got for his birthday now? Now that he has been gunned down by a stranger. It is hard sometimes to fold my oldest son’s laundry, and he’s still alive. I pray he will outlive me. I pray for all of them […]
In the early seventies my family moved into our first house, a comfortable three bedroom ranch-style house on a quiet street where I would live for the rest of my childhood with my parents and my younger sister Julia. Living next door was a girl named Faith, who was at least a year older than me, but exponentially wiser. We […]
Here are a few things I am REALLY TIRED of seeing on facebook, in blogs, or blog comments or anywhere else on the web for that matter: -The expression “Wow! Just wow!”. -The word “snarky”. -The word “hysterical” to describe anything other than that which is TRULY hysterical, which does not include 99% of that […]
This morning I was wrenched abruptly out of a deep sleep by my wretched cell-phone alarm, just in time to drive my 16-year-old daughter to school. She was awake when I went to bed and awake when I woke up. How does she do this? She’s in the prime sleeping years of her life! I slogged up the stairs, puffy-eyed, in my […]
“I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren’t any rules, how could you break them?” Leo Durocher (American Baseball Player, 1905-1991) Last weekend I was involved in a conversation with a close girlfriend and my boyfriend on the subject of our individual inclinations towards following rules. It was duly noted by my girlfriend that I […]
To my blogging friends, do you ever write something for your blog and then ask yourself, “What’s the point of this anyway? Why would anyone really care? Why even bother to BLOG?“. Sometimes the piece I’m writing gets so long and complicated, and I play with the words so much that the whole thing becomes […]
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