family drama
My momentary shock upon finding out that my room was a camper trailer in the backyard, quickly turned into relief that I would be occupying a completely different living space than the stains and the cocaine.
hpv
His cancer had been caused not by smoking, but by HPV that had been lying dormant for decades.
ihtm contest
When I wiped, I saw a single white worm on the toilet paper. Like any sane person would do, I freaked out, sobbing hysterically at 5 am.
ihtm contest
Even though the alcoholic in my life has been gone for years, the disease still lingers. I’ve locked it out of the house and it sits on the front porch waiting patiently to sneak back in.
cleaning
Sometimes it really boggles my mind that I am somebody's mother and therefore am culturally expected to nag members of my household to keep our living spaces clean.
real life
Bad news came at us like a runaway freight train. At first, it was a broken leg. Then it was a fractured femur. Then an infection set in. Then it was an amputated leg. From the thigh.
itm raw
I couldn’t tell you how old I was when I learned to read or when we stopped practicing cursive in school, but I can describe the view from the upper floor of the Columbia-Presbyterian hospital parking garage in almost perfect detail.
family drama
It started small. Forgetting words, getting turned around when driving, repeating stories. Initially, it seemed like stress -- and my mom was very good at playing it off.
careers
Being the priest’s kid defined me and my siblings even more so than being the children of a disabled person.
marriage
And while we're on the subject, is it SO HARD to just throw out the empty milk container instead of leaving it on the counter? The garbage can is RIGHT THERE.
holidays
One year, in my early teens, my dad’s then-girlfriend gave me a Thighmaster for Christmas.
Lesley in
Dec 6, 2012 at 6:00pm |
drugs
My spouse is still in his love affair with MJ. In all honesty, at times I feel like my love triangle has become one where my husband cheats on his sweet, loving weed with me, the tumultuous mistress.
family drama
I didn’t know it yet, but by the time I sent that tweet, my mom had already been dead for nine minutes.
babies
I'm embarrassed to admit to you and to anybody that I'm not sure how I feel about babies at a time when it's maybe most important for me to know.
daily mail
Just like buses, you wait all week for a juicy celebrity story and then two come along at once
Rebecca in
Jul 26, 2012 at 11:07am |
daddy issues
We went out and had a nice, big, happy family outing (My mom likes to speculate in retrospect that my dad was just gathering witnesses). Coming home exhausted, we all went to bed except my dad, who stayed up and got high.
family drama
I tried to love my sister, the same way I would have loved a handicapped child or one with Down’s Syndrome. But instead of missing a limb or a chromosome, Ellen lacked warm and fuzzy feelings as well as a conscience.
Min Lee in
May 28, 2012 at 11:04am |
