Archive for July, 2013
Figure 8
Anniversaries are like bookends on your life, ways to measure the passing of time, the progress or failure. Last year at this time, my best friend/ fake mom died from cancer. I was feverishly writing my memoir, suffering from moments of brilliance and valleys of self-doubt. My boyfriend was boozing it up behind my back. […]
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Slipping
I’m driving my son to fencing class when I get the call. Before cell phones, calls like this came in the middle of the night. A woman I know, not close enough to call “friend” but more than a casual acquaintance has died. She was in her early forties, had a talented son who played […]
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Tags: death, overdose
Oh, What a Card!
I know it’s time to write when I hear the narration in my head. You know, the one that never stops, a steady stream of words and ideas like you are in a black-and-white movie and there’s a smoky, dreamy voice-over that tells the viewer all your innermost thoughts? The ones you usually file away […]
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Lucky
Last week, I quietly turned 38. I ate steak directly off the grill and drank cheap white wine with x-husband #1, my current beau, and my best friend. The kids were there, too, though they are far from kids now. My daughter is 18 and packing for college, our conversations filled with class schedules […]
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Tags: birthday, Essay, Happy
What's Broken 