sad lou

The message

I get. I hear you. You don’t have to shout. I’m not as stupid as I seem. I am just stubborn. Just like you. Just like our dad. Just like our grandpa. etc. We come from a long line of stubborn people. I just don’t want to accept a life without you. You are a [...]

Passions on top of passion

For the record, that title is from some SATC episode. I wish I was cute and clever and could write like Michael Patrick King-before he got all greedy and started making stupid movies. I digress. Today, my sister said to me “I’m afraid that there may come a time when I’m asked what my passion [...]

Protected: Wrong again

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Christmas Day

The house is quiet and I am up alone. Like many Christmases of childhood past, I am up early, too anxious to stay asleep. My thoughts drift to my family. Ed. The only one who will wake up in my mom’s house this morning. He will have to be there for all of us, opening [...]

The Principal

It wasn’t until I was in middle school that our school system started doing “in service” days. You know, those wonderful Fridays you had no classes, but the teachers had to work. I loved those days. However, on this particular in service day, I had to go to school. I was in drama and dance [...]

Protected: So very tired

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Breathe

Breathe

  I don’t know if I can forgive him. I don’t think I am a better, stronger person. I feel weak and lost. It’s not just the lie. What he did-what he’s doing-is tearing our family apart. I used to think no one had a family as close as ours, now I know that was [...]