Posts Tagged ‘birthday’
Lucky
07Jul13
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 […]
Filed under: Bi-Polar, Creative Nonfiction | 5 Comments
Tags: birthday, Essay, Happy
My mother taught me how to lie. When she switched the price tags on a shirt at Kmart or dropped a toy I wanted into her calico purse, I pretended to not notice. At Bill Knapps, she’d tell the wait staff it was my birthday. My brother and I had these “fake” birthdays several times […]
Filed under: crazy, Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, Nonfiction, Uncategorized, Writing | 4 Comments
Tags: birthday, lies, mom, wordpress
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