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The Invitation

The invitation could not have arrived at a worse time, or a better time, depending on how you looked at it. It marked one year since she’d left a nearly ten-year relationship, with a mound of debt (now paid off in full with the exception of her car payment), turned thirty, and moved in withContinue reading “The Invitation”

Thick and Thin

She was worried their friendship wouldn’t last much longer. It had always depended upon one of them needing the other: a broken love relationship, a lost job, a death in the family. Whatever it was it was always one of them being a rock for the other one and then switching, or not, sometimes theContinue reading “Thick and Thin”

Do Over IV

This is part of a series. Refer to the Blog Index if you wish to read them in order. When she finally (finally!) arrived in Los Angeles, despite the creepy guy with a neck tattoo that kept winking at her the last few hundred miles and the old lady who sat down next to herContinue reading “Do Over IV”

Do Over III

This is part of a series. Refer to the Blog Index if you wish to read them in order. By the time she finally finished with the car lot and sat in the loaner Chuey was supposed to drive her to the airport in, she only had about forty-five minutes to execute the next partContinue reading “Do Over III”

Do Over II

This is part of a series. Refer to the Blog Index if you wish to read them in order. She drove east until she came to the next big city, passing a few small towns in between. When she saw signs for an airport and hospital she knew she was finally where she needed toContinue reading “Do Over II”

Do Over I

This is the first part of a series. Refer to the Blog Index if you wish to read them in order. When she’d struck out on her own, she’d left with nearly nothing, a bag of clothes, her car, her phone, some toiletries, a couple hundred bucks, and her scant resume with her new nameContinue reading “Do Over I”

Bath Time

From the moment she heard she was pregnant she was terrified of the baby’s death. She immediately enrolled in a CPR course. She began researching cribs and bathtubs and everything she could find on infant death, causes, ways to avoid. She couldn’t seem to stop herself from seeing ways her child could die in herContinue reading “Bath Time”

The Spider

“Oh,” she breathed, “you’re a stunner.” The spider had moved in sometime between brushing teeth last night, about 9pm or so, and brushing teeth this morning, also about 9am or so. So somewhere in the last twelve hours the spider had woven a very small and intricate web, that looked enormous and slightly terrifying inContinue reading “The Spider”

Sleep

My older son has taken to sleeping on the couch instead of going to his bed. This is new. He’s been going to bed in his own bed for months, possibly a year, and now suddenly he doesn’t want to. He always has some reason why he can’t be in there but the reasons areContinue reading “Sleep”

Divorce

When I look at my kids I see their dad. When I listen to my kids, I often hear their dad. I am so grateful that I am in love with their dad. I can’t even imagine what it’s like for parents who divorce and have to see their ex every single day in theContinue reading “Divorce”