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woke up to my mom opening my door with tears in her eyes, saying "do you know where charlie is?" and my heart dropping into my stomach. my arms started shaking when i went to google news and saw pictures of the rubble next to the word italy, next to the word rome. i think i said please several thousand times in my head before he finally called, ( Read more... )

every night for a week i've dreamed that i get an abortion and that the skin on the backs of my shoulders peels off.
anyone?

in other news, just got home from the sweetest road trip ever: a drinking-eating-inaugurating-festival in d.c. so much fun. so much obama.

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being here is like a crazy dream, one minute i'm shucking corn and then next i'm driving across vermont to go to a concert of a band called cobalt blue in the middle of a field and dancing wildly with a little girl who puts her cowboy hat on me and kisses my cheek. then i'm drunk off of the best homemade beer and climbing the path to my tent and ( Read more... )

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being approached by a man with a gun outside your house makes you think about all the people in your life you that you want to protect and makes you realize how unprepared an unarmed 105 pound 19 year-old girl is to defend herself from anything. i'm tired of this shit - my dad's house has been broken into four times in the past month (after they ( Read more... )