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LJ Idol, Week 17: Knife to a Gun Fight
I had my son at 20, far too young to understand what I was getting myself and his father, not to mention our families into. It was a struggle, one that I still struggle with somedays. Because I had made "such a mistake", when my 16 year old cousin became pregnant with her first child, it fell on me to talk to her about what everyone else felt she ( Read more... ) -
Lj Idol -Reinventing The Wheel
Martin Greable, better know as Greaby by his friends, was a brilliant man (at least he believed himself to be). Though he worked in the mail room of the smallest paper company on the west coast, he was secretly hoping to invent a machine that would allow him to be in two places at once. It was slow-going, thus far none of his ideas had panned out ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol, Week 15
CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH
Tilly ate those potato chips with all of the power her little jaws could muster, staring right in the face of Grace who was stuck chomping on carrot sticks with icky brown humas. Hummmmm asssssss. Tilly loved that word, if only because it allowed her to sort-of-but-not-really cuss, and the idea of humming on someone’s butt was ( Read more... ) -
Lj idol - Twitterpatted
The slight look of fear, the tension in every inch of her body ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: Current Events
I married my husband because I loved him, and because at that point in my life I had never met another who just GOT me the way he did- or at least no one who got me AND felt the same way about me. He was someone who was charming, funny, handsome, kind and very funny. He was also a long time alcoholic- something I never admitted to myself until it ( Read more... ) -
Lj Idol Week 12: Some Assembly Required
I have had very few moments of pure joy in my life, and as a mother I realize I am meant to say that the birth of my son was one of those moments. It wasn't. For me, having a child was extremely similar to falling in love- it doesn't happen all at once or overnight. At 20 years old I was far from prepared to give up my life for someone else; too ( Read more... ) -
Lj Idol Week 10- Sticks and Stones
He watches me when I’m sleeping; he’s kind of like Santa Claus in that way. I pretend I don’t know that he’s there, pretend I’m unaware of his face back-lit by the moon as I undress. I loved him, once, the way you love a beat up old blanket that’s been there from your first moment. It was a love that went unexpressed, a love I didn’t realize I ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week 9: Counterintuitive
There was a silence between them, an unspoken knowledge that nothing would be the same again. She'd been there before; one blonde child living with her mother, another growing inside. He was new to all of this, though, and it scared him ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week Seven- Bupkis
You claim to have a hollow, deep inside, that I can’t penetrate. You tell me it’s always been there, that you’ve just accepted it. You’re so fucking beautiful when you cry ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week 6- Food Memory
Let’s face it- Freud was an asshole. Cocaine and penis envy aside, his personal issues clouded many of his otherwise well thought out theories. I hate his beard and smug face too, but that’s beside the point. One thing I have always found interesting though were his theories on psychosexual stages of development, especially the oral stage. Freud ( Read more... )