Is 40 the age when women start turning into their mothers? Because I’ve been playing around with writing some poems lately. My mom has always loved reading and writing poetry, whereas I’ve been a little indifferent to it. As a teenager, I do remember reading a book by Billy Collins one summer and liking it. …
Our neighbors moved out suddenly the other week. A couple of retirees, Mike and Margie were the chattiest people on our block. Desperately trying to leave or get back into the house, it was easy to get trapped in a very one-sided conversation with Mike while his dog pooped on your grass. “That’s Moon, short …
The Time: Spring, 1993. The Place: A Lutheran church for our Brownie Girl Scout meeting. I’m going to be honest here, I hated this Girl Scout troop. Aside from one really dear friend, the kids and grownups all deserved a badge for being completely unbearable. Occasionally, on a cool day, my mom would sit in …
I think I’ve always looked pretty young. When I was 19, I went to a movie with a younger friend and the theater employee asked if she was my mom. Everyone always insisted that I’d appreciate this when I was older, which infuriated me at the time. Yeah, everyone’s infantilizing you NOW, but just imagine …
A friend tagged me recently in one of those “25 Random Things About Me” lists on Facebook, and I thought it could make a fun writing exercise. I feel like I’ve been experiencing a bit of writer’s block ever since I caught Covid in October. For a few weeks, it was a full-on brain fog …
