Category Archives: conflict
The Blood Test
For over a year now, my son has needed blood work done in order to start immunotherapy, a year-long process that could help with his pet allergy so that we can replace the beloved cat who died last year. I have not been enthusiastic. His fear of needles is legendary, and until recently his vaccines (…) MORE »
Heather’s No Good-Horrible-Terrible-Very Bad Day(s)
I am seriously pissed off. My bad day started yesterday when two different friends confided that they’re struggling with insensitive husbands. Now, my marriage, as many of my close friends and all of facebook knows, is so far from a Saturday afternoon picnic that it doesn’t actually include any picnic paraphernalia at all, except, perhaps (…) MORE »
In Media Res
I always wanted get born to be a place where participants could be unresolved without judgment, where conflictedness is our reality. I wanted it so desperately because it was and continues to be, what I need, sometimes more than breath.
Hello, my name is Clara, and my Brother is an Alcoholic.
I am the sister of an addict. He is an alcoholic and a drug user, and he has burned nearly all the bridges in our family with his lies. He never could learn the easy way. If someone told him not to do something, he turned right around and did it, the same when he (…) MORE »
The Two Percent
Nathaniel is my only child. He’s 20 months old. I had him when I was 40. For most of my life, I never planned on having children at all, then I met my husband who used to answer, “A dad,” when he was a kid and adults asked him what he wanted to be when (…) MORE »
A PRAYER FOR HER LIFE – A Short Story
“Lord, please take care of her. She’s so frail…” I falter and don’t know what else to say. If God knows my deepest thoughts, why do I ever bother trying to pray? Then I think of my husband and his sister, Lee. The way she clung to me in the airport last night. “At least, (…) MORE »
