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LJ Idol Season 10, Week 9: Take a Hike
I've always loved the outdoors. My family started going camping shortly after I started walking, and as we lived in Florida and Georgia when I was very young, we had a VERY long camping season. It was the one thing my family did that made us feel "normal". We could escape mine and my brother's medical issues, my parents were out in public so they ( Read more... ) -
The Real lJ Idol, Topic 9: Trolley Problem
He was drinking again. She could smell it as soon as she walked into his house. She didn't even have to call out for him. It wouldn't have mattered if she did. He was passed out on the couch, oblivious to the world around him ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Season 10, Week 8: No Comment
I have worked with children for nearly twelve years. I have lost count the number of times I've been left shaking my head, unable to think of anything to say. Here are a few stories from my time with kids that have basically left me with no comment ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Season 10, Week 6: Heel Turn
My father and I got along famously while I was growing up. He and my mother played "Good Cop, Bad Cop" and he was always, without exception, the Good Cop. He was the parent that played games with us, took us out for ice cream, took us to play mini golf, took us to the movies, taught us how to swim, went out in the ocean with us. My mother was the ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: Fear is the heart of love
Love Through the YearsYou never hear "I love you" from your father, only your mother ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Season 10, Week 4
I don't handle change well. I moved a lot as a kid, and change was a constant. I always hated it, when nothing stayed the same and I was never given the chance to get comfortable. Now, as an adult, I'm finally comfortable where I am and I'm hesitant to make any changes ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Season 10, Week 2, Brushback Pitch
New York City. The Big Apple. The City that Never Sleeps. The City of Dreams ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Season 10, Week 2 , That One Friend
That one friend of mine is ALWAYS getting me into troubleI'm four years old, playing at my friend Jacob's house. His mother is cooking us lunch and we're in the living room watching cartoons. Jacob gets up, runs to the kitchen, then comes back and tells me, every excitedly, "Guess what!?!?! My mom said we can color on the walls!" I'm hesitant, but ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Season 10, Week 1 , I need the struggle to feel alive
The first time I saw a therapist, I was eleven years old. In the year leading up to this visit with the therapist, my father had lost his job, found a new job, moved us from Georgia to Delaware, then got transferred to a different department so we had to move again. During the nine months we spent in that first house in Delware, my mother suffered ( Read more... ) -
Introduction
This is my first entry for Week 0 of therealljidol. Concrit is welcome ( Read more... )