When you know what it’s like to be hungry, and you don’t want to be there again
I retype his words for a story I’m working on, a story I don't even want to finish in these days after learning my job, these eight years of security, will be swallowed whole by a black hole in less than three months. Most of us don’t know what it’s like to be hungry,...
When love doesn’t look quite like the fairy tale we imagined
It’s the familiar smell of his skin, the way it stretches across his back, just waiting for my touch; and it’s his arms wrapping all the way around me, even when I’ve been a little crazy and weepy and anxious; and it’s his voice, filling the house with music...
When love doesn't look quite like the fairy tale we imagined
It’s the familiar smell of his skin, the way it stretches across his back, just waiting for my touch; and it’s his arms wrapping all the way around me, even when I’ve been a little crazy and weepy and anxious; and it’s his voice, filling the house with music...
When you wish you were expecting a girl instead of another boy
I walk into the dim-lit room, my hopes opening the door for me. This whole experience has been different, the sickness, the carrying, the exhaustion, the weight gain, almost none at all, and I caught myself thinking in these days before knowing, It’s a girl. Surely...
Do I have a mental health issue or do I lack faith?
It’s just a tiny thing, oval and white and smaller than the vitamins I swallow every single day, but I leave it on my desk and stare at it. It’s not the enemy. The panic-lump in my throat is the enemy, and this could help. I know this. But still I can’t bring myself...