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Getting Over the Hump
This was our first big outing together without her parents. We knew when we asked her if she wanted to spend her birthday with her uncle and Auntie at the zoo, that we had entered a new playing field. At the start of the day, we had a relationship that felt familiar, but it had…
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Not Feeling Myself
I haven’t been feeling myself lately. I mean that in both the literal and metaphorical way. For weeks now, while engaging in activities I typically enjoy, I have found myself feeling flat and robotic. I’ve recently made decisions and matched them with actions that should have carried a sense of motivation and purpose. And yet,…
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Lost…in Translation
Today, I am not at all embarrassed to say, I am an incredibly inexperienced drinker. My parents’ reprisal carried enough “risk” that I chose to bypass the years when I was young and naïve enough to experiment and make ill-advised decisions with intoxicants. Sure, I engaged in the social initiation of my 21st birthday and…
