Category Archives: disappointment
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 »
Fantasy Vs. Reality, Take 2920*
I loved Easter when I was a kid. My father bought me a wrist corsage. I wore a new dress with eyelet trim. The crocuses bloomed. When we sang, “Jesus Christ is Risen Today,” I got tears in my eyes. I wanted to give my kids the same sense of wonder at Easter. Even (…) MORE »
The Book of Job
“Fine. No books tonight, Sören. I love you. Good night.” Sören scrunches his sandy eyebrows and puckers his lips. With his overgrown, homemade haircut he looks like a Beatle with some serious indigestion. “Not fair!” My persecuted rock star has spent the last year rehearsing his intonation, frustration, connotation, and implication on the frets of a single (…) MORE »
The Finish – A Short Story
You sit on the side of the high school pool cheering your daughter on. Water churns, sprays you, as legs kick harder. She’s a full arm’s length ahead of the others, including her teammates. “Faster, Kelly!” you scream, afraid she might lose her lead in these last forty-five meters. Mentally, you try to bridge your (…) MORE »
What I thought motherhood would look like
Other than a couple brief moments of rocking a swaddled newborn to sleep, I just started having some moments of, “now THIS is what I thought being a mom was going to be like.” And J will be 2 and a half next month. Do tell, what were the images you had in your head (…) MORE »
The Reluctant Valentine
When I was a sophomore in college, my boyfriend and I broke up a few days before Valentine’s Day. I was sitting on my front porch on Valentine’s, probably brooding about how romance was one big steaming crock of horse hooey, when a girl walked past holding a lavish bouquet of flowers. She beamed over (…) MORE »
