These bully issues just will not go away. Your child is in tears, or you notice behavioral changes, complaints of stomaches and headaches and avoidance of school and social interaction. Every parent I know has felt that helpless moment when your heart constricts with pain when your child as been hurt and you can do […]
Before you read much further, be warned that I am in my bully pulpit and I will be addressing current issues that make me cry, make my blood boil and distress me. It reduces the argument down to why?: why can we not, humans all, treat one another with respect? why can we advance technologically […]
I hear voices inside my head. I hear the voices, like a wind chimes, of my characters, each one clamoring for attention, for his or her story to be told. I hear my mother’s voice, although she has been dead for several years, giving me advice, admonishing me for not hanging up my jacket right […]
Fifteen and twenty-one equaled thirty-six, the same age my mother is now. My Mom would be fifty-seven in twenty-one years, old but not ancient. But I guess I wouldn’t know what she even looked like in twenty-one years if I wasn’t going to be there. And I wouldn’t know anything about anybody; my grandparents, my […]
“The woman, Dusty,” matching fingers, Mr. D pressed his hands together, his voice husky, “is my partner, Sarree. And yes, she is Yugo’s mother.” “Then Yugo is yours!” I blurted, rising part way out of my chair. “No,” he replied simply. No? my thoughts spun, and I sat back down. If he wasn’t the father, […]