I don't remember much about dinner time with my parents before the age of six. I assume they were pretty normal as until I was six years old, I lived at home with both of my parents. My only memory of dinner time specifically living with my parents together was eating dinner while watching TV and being angry that Family Fued was interrupted for the ( Read more... )

I had to buy out of LJ Idol because January was crazy but I'm back for Second Chance Idol!

I had joined flyingharmony's Secret Santa exchange. flipflop_diva was my Secret Santa and she sent me some awesome presents :)  She got me two awesome journals - one that has a penguin on it and one is Harry Potter themed labeled as Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, & Prongs are proud to present The Marauder's Map. She also got me an maazing set of colorful markers that I ( Read more... )

"If anybody - like the police - asks, please tell them I was with you last Thursday night." With that, Molly kissed his cheek and ran out the door on her way to her bakery, not waiting for an answer. She didn't have to - for months, Joe had been lying to the police praying no one would catch him in the lie ( Read more... )

My Bubby both pre and post Holocaust loved to be a part of choirs. She had a gorgeous singing voice and loved to sing. She would sing along to anything with a smile on her face, lost in the melody as if it took her to a far away place. When I picture her in my memories, I think of her with her eyes closed, rocking back and forth, singing holiday ( Read more... )

I hate everything about winter. I hate having to wear long sleeves, sweaters, and jackets. I don't want to have to layer clothes to have to keep warm. I have no desire for the temperatures to ever get below 40 degrees, let alone 32 degrees. Never mind the 10 degree windchill.  When it gets dark at 5 PM, I find it absolutely depressing. I don't find ( Read more... )

No one paid much attention the first news article about the missing body in the neighborhood. The rumor had it that the neighbor was a prosititute so it wasn't a surprise to anyone that she might have fallen into the wrong crowd. The second body, people whispered about but since he was not a well-liked person in the community, people shrugged and ( Read more... )

"You're like a puppy chasing after people," he remarked coldly as he turned away from her to stare out the window, bored with the conversation. This felt like the millionth time they've had this repeated conversation and every time she tried to guilt him into staying.

"What do you mean?" Tears fell softly down her face as she struggled to figure ( Read more... )

What high school teaches you: if you have sex, you WILL get pregnant.  If you went to a school like I did that does teach sex education, you're taught the ways to prevent for pregnancy - condoms, pills, abstinence. I shudder to think about what you learned in schools that teach abstinence only.  If you're like me, you got a project that was ( Read more... )

"How long have you been living like this?" The therapist asked gently, pausing in her writing.

Diana slouched in the pink, fuzzy chair staring at her nails. If she answered the questions honestly and voiced what she never said before, does that make her thoughts true? Diana bit her nail, chipping the nail polish. She wondered if biting her nails had ( Read more... )