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Onto the Face of the Earth 27 Jun 2013 | 01:52 am
This is the first time I've actually sat down at the computer in weeks. Even the spammers have given up on me. I have dropped onto the face of the earth. Around the first of June I decided to deal in...
Empty Spaces 12 Jun 2013 | 02:20 am
Nature abhors a vacuum. Empty a space out completely and it will scramble to inhale debris from nearby to right this imbalance. I have been dealing in empty spaces these last few weeks. In my yard, ...
Parenting With Pop Music 6 Jun 2013 | 02:33 am
I have made two startling discoveries about myself in the last few years. These have nothing to do with mysterious lumps. The first is that I have friends. Actual, real-life people whose company I en...
Safe Passage 4 Jun 2013 | 02:39 am
I woke up this morning in a sweaty heap, my children each clinging to my sides like barnacles to this ageing ship I navigate through life's storms and sunsets. I sent them to bed last night with tear...
Suspended, Part Five 30 May 2013 | 09:45 pm
{Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four} Even with its tired, public-service pallor, it was a room full of hope. Young kids were there with nervous parents to take the test to start them out on th...
Suspended, Part Four 29 May 2013 | 08:28 pm
{Part One, Part Two, Part Three} We drove off and then we drove off and we drove south and south some more and somehow I found myself here. Here in the Lone Star State, surrounded by traffic and str...
Suspended, Part Three 29 May 2013 | 01:11 am
{Part One} {Part Two} Three more cruisers showed up full of reinforcements and they emptied my life out of my car. I don't know what they were looking for. Actually, that's a lie. I had a pretty good...
Suspended, Part Two 23 May 2013 | 08:24 pm
{Read Part One here} There were a lot of late nights. Waiting tables. Waiting. Waiting to go back to school, waiting for life to start again. Just waiting. It was exhausting, all this waiting. It's a...
Suspended, Part One 23 May 2013 | 05:26 am
The woman behind the counter just looked at me. I stood there and thought I should smile encouragingly, maybe nod gently in her direction. I arranged my face: widened my eyes, raised my eyebrows and ...
Go Ask Alice, Part Seven 18 May 2013 | 02:17 am
{Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, Part Six} The fall came in, cold and wet. The rain hammered on the windows of the activity room and changed the light. The leaves changed sudden...
