Yearly Archives: 2025

The Party Guest

My mother insisted I wear my going-to-a-party clothes, which meant slacks, a clean button shirt, and church shoes – freshly polished

Final Instructions for Princesses

My mother’s Princess days were replaced by the more mundane experience of motherhood and domesticity—raising babies, keeping house, cooking, sewing.

Rational Choice Theory

As I do this math I work under the assumption that consumers and firms are rational. This makes sense.

Immigrants in America: Notes from the Irish Shadows

My Irish roots, as seemingly impossible as a rose in the desert, survived and thrived, despite the harshest of conditions.

Crack

When I turn in at night, I no longer imagine I’ll rest easy for fighting the good fight. In my fitful sleep, I’ll grit my teeth and crack my molars instead.

The Sound of Silence

I admit that silence may have mirrored my loneliness. It started as a mild ache, an ache that grew – sharp and insistent, until it was unbearable.

Evelyn-gate

In the parking lot, Evelyn declared that we could go eat somewhere else if we wanted; she was going back home to have a sandwich.

Eye of the Storm

After the storm passed, you thought things would calm down. Instead, weekend after weekend, you sat alone, waiting for texts that never came.

Welcome to the Unhome

It was a colonial style house with the staircase in the middle, separating the living room from the kitchen and dining room. I also remember the fist-sized hole in the sheetrock wall going up the stairs.

Nothing But Love

For the past several years, the annual letter has ended with a phrase that balances emotions borne out of the concluding year's experiences with a gathering of hope and courage for the year to come: “Nothing but love”

Hashimoto’s, Infertility & Prolapse: Lessons from a Fitness Class

My answer made me fixate on my prolapse, the reason I don’t run anymore. My marathon running belonged to another life, another me.

What To Do With The Bodies?

I was fourteen years old and The Firefighter was twenty-three when I got lost in his smoldering ash eyes. I don’t remember how it started.
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