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Hear her roar 2008-05-27 20:15:09 It’s ironic, really, because she was such an early talker. She was a developmental breeze, chatty before she even had words, relaxing into school curriculum once she did. She was reading by four, and, at home, she rarely shut up. In public, however, it was a completely different story. She was a completely different person.
Gracie [...]
Shaken. 2008-05-29 13:51:20 At first I thought my eyes were deceiving me. It was so disorienting, staring into a kaleidoscope contraption of plastic colorful tubing, the air thick with the shrill squeals of children at play, and seeing an ugliness that didn’t belong. My brain felt like it was being tricked. Bad things don’t happen at McDonald’s Playland, [...] Read more:Shaken
She’s okay. 2008-06-02 17:16:37 I don’t know where to start.
How can I begin to thank you, all of you, for what you’ve done, for me, for us? (Here, have a comma, take two, take three!) The blog comments, the emails, the phone calls. The offers to break bread, the offers to break knees…. how can I find words to [...]
Help wanted. 2008-06-05 15:29:21 People often ask me for advice about eating disorders. They assume that because I had one, I know stuff. That I have the answers they’re so desperately seeking. Unfortunately for them, it’s not a good assumption. It leaves me feeling helpless. That’s why I’m coming to you today.
I’ve written about my own experiences before so [...] Read more:wanted
tonight 2008-06-08 18:34:45 It’s times like this, sky vaguely green, leaves subtly turned, air just heavy enough. Enough to make my arms tingle, spur faint jangling of a wind chime, reveal the rumbling of unknown things. It’s times like this, the girls’ voices lilting, words indecipherable, unnecessary, anyway, happy, so happy, the squeals, unknowing. It’s times like this, [...]
First I will insult you all and then I will ask you for your prayers. 2008-06-08 11:35:12 So it’s time I addressed something: you crazies have all been calling my children by their wrong names. I don’t know why you were doing it, but their names are Emma and Gretta. Everybody knows that. It’s the truth.
See, if it were not the truth, then it would mean that I went back to the [...] Read more:First
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storms and sunsets 2008-06-10 11:12:37 I don’t understand how he’s doing it, my dad, this thing, this whole thing, right now, down there. I don’t understand, my mind can’t stretch itself around, its arms reach out, fall short, grab air, grab nothing.
It’s not that he isn’t strong, he is. He is strong and good and brave, I know these things. [...]
Reason #3458734 I never leave the house. 2008-06-14 20:03:45 I didn’t want to go out. I was tired. I’d worked all day on a huge project, and I’d been assaulted with marble-sized hail while jogging (I swear, ask the random stranger dude in the white truck who rescued me). I was crabby and I had a splitting headache. I wanted dinner to magically appear, [...] Read more:Reason
A pair of sunglasses is a marriage is a blog award. Or something. 2008-06-18 11:55:17 In 1997, while waiting to board a plane to our honeymoon destination, Dave and I bought a pair of matching sunglasses at an airport kiosk. Ignoring my new husband’s eye-rolling, I christened them Marital Sunglasses, a solid representation of the ethereal bliss that was the start of our new life together.
We found our gate, and [...] Read more:marriage
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Is this thing on? 2008-07-23 22:23:00 Hello?
Helllllloooooooo??
I know you’ve all gone home. You’ve deleted my feed from your readers, dropped me from your blogrolls, I know. It’s been a month since I closed the curtains on this space. I feel like I’m standing up on the stage, the audience long gone, my voice a lonely echo in the rafters, scraps of [...]
Stepping off 2008-06-27 11:04:14 In my moments of inspiration… in the curious alchemy of night evaporating into morning, or the glittery mania a half a bottle in… in those (increasingly rare) moments that I’m possessed by the powerful urge to mark time with writing, to hurl my words into the air and watch them flutter swaybacked down around me… [...] Read more:Stepping
ANNOUNCEMENT: New OFD site and a give-a-way 2008-08-03 12:48:03 So I’ve done it. I’ve got my own domain. I’m moving the blog.
It’s not ready yet, mind you. I’ve got Designing Temptation working on it and that’s gonna take a couple weeks, but I decided the process of switching everything over was going to take quite a bit of effort, and I might as well [...]
Last night 2008-08-01 09:06:04 The front door entrance yawned wide; the maitre de, bored. Crystal water goblets, polished to reflect the perfection all around. The waitress spread my napkin across my lap, the subtlest invasion. She did not bring the food, the delicious, tiny portions; it was beneath her. The wine had legs of its own, syrupy and solid. [...]
Fear and self-loathing in the Midwest 2008-07-28 17:08:43 Once upon a time, when Gretta was a toddler, I told her to trust me and then I nearly drowned her — at which point the heaviest fear I’ve ever felt set in. It was like some God of Terrifying Things was holding me by my ankles and plastering papier-mache-panic upon my body piece by [...] Read more:Midwest
pfffffffffffffffft (the sound of my new poofy head leaking)*** UPDATED____ Ohgoodlord updated AGAIN*** 2008-07-26 11:12:47 First, my apologies to the innocents wandering over from BlogNosh after reading my eloquent waxings on pain and parenthood and all things kumbaya. I swear, it’s not a bait and switch, there’s a little bit of everything over here. Today, I’m abusing italics and there’s a whole lotta…. ineleoquence. Uneloquence? Ah, fuck it, let’s get [...]
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