Category: Blog Posts

A friend tried her hand at writing today, and she wrote this. She doesn’t have a blog, so I’m posting it for her with her permission and anonymity. — I’m nine. My mom has just been hit by my dad, and she hits the floor. Nose first perhaps, because she has a nosebleed. I remember…

Instagram is corrosive to my attachment with reality. The more emotionally laden I feel, the more potent it’s numbing effect. There was a time, though, when Instagram was the anchoring to my social existence. In those days, my Instagram biography would be regularly updated, as to announce to the world and Instagram robots who I…

I mean this as no offense to anyone that believes in a higher power. I myself believe in a higher power. I offer this only as a musing, and as someone currently mourning a mistake. When we say “it was meant to be, it was in God’s control”, do we mean to absolve ourselves of…