Memories
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The Never Gave Up On Me Teachers
For this week’s Truthful Tuesday, PCGuyIV asks, If you do have any poignant good memories related to school, what are they? And, while I could answer this question in many different ways, I have decided to focus my response on the educators who had a lasting impact on my life — the ones who live… Continue reading
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In Memoriam: Lessons in Love
Go With the Flow and Then Punch the Jerk Off For my twenty-fifth birthday my entire family went to the Renaissance Festival in Florence. My brothers were twenty-two and twenty-one at the time, and both were excited because they could legally drink beer while snarfing down turkey legs. They also got jacked up by the… Continue reading
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The One That Got Away…
My first crush started in the first grade and lasted the better part of fifteen years. His name was Christopher, and we became fast friends when I punched a boy in the nose for bullying Chris on the playground. (I’ve never been able to abide bullies. To this day, I still intercede when I see… Continue reading
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Judy Blume Lied 😂
I was obsessed with Judy Blume as a young adolescent. I enthusiastically read every book she ever wrote; but, I identified most with Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret. It’s the story of a sixth grade girl fumbling her way through puberty and attempting to define her own faith. (I know that Lionsgate recently… Continue reading
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Wounds Set in Amber
May 23, 2003I’m standing in the kitchen of our two bedroom apartment on Orange Grove Road. My husband has just said something that has me laughing so hard I have tears running down my flushed chipmunk cheeks. The phone over the antique microwave rings. I’m not a fan of telephone conversations so I check the… Continue reading