Monthly Archives: April 2009

I Am Becoming My Mother

It struck me last week. I am my mother. Okay, first things first: This is not a bad thing. My mother is awesome, sorry to brag. She’s got this West Virginia twang, and she’s sassy and funny and says things like “Behind every dark cloud, there’s another one” when she was trying to say “Every [...]

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Jesse Is Evil…

This has been stuck in my head nonstop for, like, two weeks. And Evan and Jenny are also evil for having us over for dinner and then letting me watch Marley and Me, a movie I swore not to cry over. Hey, I tried really, really hard, okay? The worst part is, I knew exactly [...]

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The Back Zapper

I have a new toy. I got it from my chiropractor today, and I call it the Back Zapper, though its real name is the Prostim 1000, which, according to the FDA, is a “Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulator (TENS)…used for the symptomatic relief and management of chronic intractable pain and adjunctive treatment of post-surgical or [...]

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Faida

When I think of Asha (not her real name), I think of her beautiful baby Faida, a little over a year old, Faida’s beautiful baby smile, the tender way Asha touched Faida’s head. When I think of Asha, I think of how in another life, in another world, we might have been friends, we might [...]

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