Eight years ago, at the end of August, I started to feel horrible. I was seven months pregnant and I put my feelings off to a combination of that, the fact that we were in the of a blistering Florida summer, and that two women at work were taking a perverse pleasure in bullying me […]
We walk, hand in hand, along the beach. She tells me funny stories of her friends’ antics, her worries about the upcoming FCAT, her concerns about fifth grade and middle school. Suddenly, she seems every day of her ten years and three months on this planet. My conversation with her seems more similar to one […]
I am not a huge fan of Valentine’s Day. I was never the girl who got flowers or balloons or candy in high school. Generally this didn’t bother me. I’ve never been an overly romantic type of person and I’m attracted to people who aren’t overly romantic. Steve laughs because he knows I’d rather have […]
