My third season skating as a Naptown Roller Girl is complete. I bouted for the Third Alarm multiple times and… Read more Three Seasons Later…
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Me and Hillary
Storytime! Gather ’round the internet campfire, grab some popcorn or booze, and prepare yourself for a true tale. The year was… Read more Me and Hillary
The Anxiety Trap
I’m in it right now. It’s like a crab trap, complete with the feeling like I could be boiled alive… Read more The Anxiety Trap
I Loves a Good Fiddle
Flashback to Christmas 1995: At 17, I was going through my first real break-up. It was soul-crushing because, well, I… Read more I Loves a Good Fiddle
#2016wontbreakus
As the tributes to Prince poured out of my radio on the way home from work yesterday, the DJ (former… Read more #2016wontbreakus
Gone
I’ve stared at the screen for hours in the last few days, wondering what I was going to say and… Read more Gone
Slip Sliding Away
“I’m slipping, aren’t I,” my Dad said to my Mom this past week. As edema settles into his feet and… Read more Slip Sliding Away
The Parent Trap
CLICK! The sound of being hung up on, now all-too-familiar, again last night. Only, this time, it was my Dad… Read more The Parent Trap
Changing Course
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to… Read more Changing Course
Shifts
“My Mom attempted suicide.” “My Mom tried to kill herself.” “She said, ‘I’ll kill myself before I go into a… Read more Shifts
