My parents got divorced when I was one. My mom didn’t make enough money for us to have a place on our own so we lived with friends and family in the beginning. At one point we lived with my aunt in her one room studio. At another point we lived with my mom’s best friend [...]
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Different
Posted in Me, Memories on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My Sister
Posted in Me, Memories on February 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My big sister is a year older than me. The day I was born she screamed and pointed at me as if telling my mom to “bring that thing back to where it came from!” For months my sister would do everything in her young power to destroy me. But even as she ran her [...]
The Beginning
Posted in Me, Memories on February 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My first memory is in a hospital. I’m in a bed being wheeled down the ER by anxious doctors. They are looking down at me with concern. I can’t see my mom but I know she is there. She’s doing her best to be a statue of strength but her eyes betray her fear. She [...]
He Kissed Me Part II
Posted in Me, Memories on January 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
5/11/07
I thought he was my first love, I thought he was my first heartbreak. But really, he was just my first experience with normalcy. He was the first person to bring real emotion into my life that was not self induced. In my 12 years, I did not know that humans worked according to their [...]
Memories
Posted in Me, Memories on April 9, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Sometimes memories creep up on me in the middle of the most obscure moments. I could be driving somewhere, sitting at the dinner table, talking on the phone, or in the middle of a project when it hits me like a ton of bricks. Suddenly I am back to where-ever the memory takes place, I can see [...]