I’ve cleaned out my closet because I’m a fan of metaphor, and because I don’t have a magic grief reliever or pregnancy disappearer or fast forward button for our lives.
And also- I’m going to say this because I’m tired of dancing around the issue and being afraid of losing friends: I’ve lost a SHITLOAD of [...]
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Monday you turned four years old. Since you were born, August 11th has been a bittersweet day for me, a time to remember the strange juxtaposition of trauma and joy. I remember cradling the phone in my neck while excitedly packing a suitcase that afternoon, trying to conceal my feelings from Melanie while we [...]
1) what the HELL is this?
I had to relocate it when we were hedging today (read: trying to save our plants from being suffocated by FoX Grape vines) and the thing would not fly away and when I disturbed him he sort of squirted neon yellow liquid everywhere. Finally I had to pick off the [...]
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