“Hello, (insertnamehere), how are you today?”
I wish I could say “Hey, <insertnamehere>!” to nearly every person I pass. For such a small campus, I barely know anyone. I see someone new every day I’m here. That’s the thing. I don’t meet...
View ArticleUnconditional love
I live at one end of our upstairs hallway with my parents and my dad’s office. The boys take up the other end, filling the air with a pungent odor of testosterone. Jordan, Trevor, Adam and I having a...
View ArticleSibling camaraderie
There will be no Easter egg hunt tomorrow. Oh, and I didn’t buy much candy to put in the Easter baskets, thus I have no jelly beans. Coloring eggs? Forget it. I’m not buying the kit. …all of the...
View ArticleFrom the box to the grave
I wrote this poem in a cemetery I found nearby. In the beginning of the summer, I’d ride my bike there to sit and think. (I’ve spent a lot of time alone over the past couple of months.) Such a...
View ArticleBlog posts and birthdays
When I turned 13, I got my room redone. We covered the ugly mauve walls with bright raspberry, periwinkle, lime green and orange. I had my first boy-girl party that year. My crush came. He gave me...
View ArticleThe trigger for tears. Thanks, Mom.
It’s been six months. Six months and I didn’t even realize it. Logging in to Facebook yesterday morning brought this post made by my mother to my attention: …followed by some silent tears because...
View ArticleAll 5’2″ of me
The light is still on in the far-right room on the second floor of Townhouse 31 because Emily CANNOT sleep. And she just gave away WHERE she sleeps. Whoops. She’d make some potatoes to eat right now if...
View ArticleThe faceless nobody
The tile floor in the kids’ bathroom is brand new. I noticed it a couple weeks ago when I came home to see Rob Delaney in Buffalo with my brothers. Some faceless nobody came in, pulled up the old...
View ArticleYoungest-child syndrome
Emily broke the disc for our favorite game, Pandemonium. It had been a complementary game that came with our brand-new computer. We fought over playing it and learned to take turns until it, well,...
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