Author of "What's Done in the Dark"
It’s three o’clock in the morning as I write this, and I’m up because I had a dream about my maternal grandmother, who passed away just seven days shy of Christmas last year. And it has just dawned on me that today is Mother’s Day. Perhaps she felt the need to be remembered today, so I…
When I was a sophomore in high school, I dated a freshman from another school, a guy I’ll just call “Paul.” Paul was cute, I mean really cute, and a gentleman if I’ve ever met one. A really nice guy. I remember one day he called me while I was doing dishes, the radio was on in the background, and one of my favorite songs came on. It was Flashlight,…
Do you know how weird it is to meet someone who looks just like you, and yet you’re totally unrelated to one another? I do. Allow me to share my story. Doppelganger: noun; a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person I was 19, working in the camera and jewelry section at Kmart, and trying…
Since I’ve updated my website with a new design, I’ve been trying to go back through my blog posts and find those moments when I mentioned something that was “a story for a another time.” While I was doing that, one came to mind. The story you’re about to read is literally about the time I had to pick my…
It started early one weekday morning, in December of 2014, somewhere around 5:30 AM CST. I was brushing my teeth and trying to get ready for work. It’s really important that I explain that I am not a morning person. Daughter (19-ish, who’d just come in from a second job): I’m going to need you to…