Most people don’t do things. They just tread water and wait for things to happen to them. Jen Dziura, Bullish
Growing up, I thought that people had their lives together by the time they turned 25. You had graduated from college by then and started
I’ve always thought remembering dates of bad days and having them loom over your head was stupid. Every single day after the first bad one
“There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such
It’s been two months since we moved to Cincinnati and things have finally calmed down enough that my brain is registering this is a permanent
Death, Life, Miscarriage, Pete
The rudeness of our first OB prompted me to get a second opinion. I couldn’t deal with her and her miracles. I needed someone to
Death, Life, Miscarriage, Pete
It began with the hot flashes. It was September, after all, and the building that I work has an air conditioner that is notorious for
This is how I feel about 2011. In the past twelve months, we have survived two layoffs at work, a kidney biopsy, and both of
As a Lit major, I love poetry. If you had told me that the hours I spent analyzing it and writing papers would make me
We are sitting in the waiting room at Mayo Clinic and Pete is reading Cat Fancy. It’s Biopsy Day #2. Biopsy Day #1 was a