The Anorexic Path to Publication

My sister, Leona, was nine years older than me. The age gap was one of many reasons we were never close. Our inability to connect fueled by insecurities and parental criticism. In another playing field we might’ve bonded and helped each other soar. We both dreamed of...

The Wake-Up Call I Never Expected

Remember when you realized love and like weren’t interchangeable? That day when you looked at your loved one and truth slammed into your head the way the sky bonked Chicken Little. You bit your tongue to keep from saying, “I don’t like you. Did I ever really like you,...

Weed Editing

Pictures of daffodils, forsythia, dogwoods and magnolias have been battling it out for weeks in the Social Palace to prove winter is over. Is it my imagination or did peeps around the world start posting them earlier this year in order to pull themselves out of the...