She closed the book, placed it on the table, and finally, decided to walk through the door. I was told her name was Melanie and she would be finishing my intake. “Your nose is a little crooked,” she said with motherly concern. “I got into a fight...
I sit in a parking lot with a student and watch a woman drive circles around our parked car. She loops repeatedly in a big black truck, flashing a peace sign and shouting “You can do it Matt, you can do it!!” She's pumping her son up...
I can’t claim that my parents didn’t love me. I’m not one of those lucky kids who get to use that as an excuse to justify their shoplifting and array of tattoos. My parents loved me they just didn’t watch me very...
This is the story of the strangest and scariest thing to ever happen to me during a Summer day camp in Northern New Jersey in the mid 90s when I was a child...
my name is Ray Certified, i am a 50 year old husband and father of 4 from Hawthorne Ca. My Family and i are Jehovah Witnesses. There is my Wife of 30 yrs, Lonna, my oldest Caprice 22, my Nu who is 19, my first born son K-von 15 and my youngest C...
I'm seven years old and my dad and I are looking at mummies. We're at Walter's Art Gallery in Baltimore Maryland. The mummies, their tombs are black and gold, burnt sienna. Inside, the remains of an ancient civilization. Tucked...
Like many, I can safely say that my college years were some of the best years of my life. There were friends, obscure liberal arts classes, house shows, bars, cheap beer cans, marijuana, lectures on saving the environment and various sexual...
