interviewing repeatedly, revising her resume, getting along with her new husband, dragging the trashbins out to the curb and back to their places ( Read more... )

so i see you've done it again ( Read more... )

it's hard to see you this sad. im sorry that i dont know what to do. i dont think my counsel to you was ever that stellar, but in the past i could relate to the reasons you were upset or happy. it's a priviledge only siblings get ( Read more... )

the days go so fast; in the morning i wake up happy, and the next time i have a chance to think about you is around now, at 9 or 10 at night, when i wonder what you're doing because i remember that it's only 7 or 8 there, and time zones have always kind of confused me. it's usually around this time that i decide that i'll call you tomorrow instead ( Read more... )

"Hi, could you stop staring at me like that?" he said, atypically asserting himself in public, and to a stranger, female stranger! He said this and then he looked away of course, hiding a small proud smile and assuming it was taken care of ( Read more... )

well, it was when i woke up, at 7:14am on November 1st, 2014, that i first knew something was wrong. that the warnings were real, and not just something made up in washington to scare us. i shouldnt even have been up that early. the night before was, of course, halloween, and i'd been out late for one last trick-or-treating venture with some ( Read more... )

( sold my piano, it couldn't come with me )

One reason I need to leave the country ( Read more... )

You know those mornings after nightmares where you wake up and  you say, "Oh god, that was so scary that it must have been a dream. That was definitely a dream because things like this don't actually happen--not to me. I'm a good person. I don't need to be taught about loneliness or responsibility or shock right now ( Read more... )

I don't know anything about this.

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Sometimes now, in the daytime, he forgets to do things. Just simple, little things, that perhaps no one else would notice. He neglects to tie his left shoe. He forgets to shave. He backs out of the driveway without looking first. When he sleeps at night, he walks through his dreams collecting his mistakes in a ( Read more... )