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A little over a year ago, I called my doctor to tell her that I hadn’t had a period for several months. She prescribed progesterone, like all the times I had called her before with the same problem. Only this time, for the first time, it didn’t work. So she sent me to get some blood work and prescribed a different form of the same drug. The good news was, I wasn’t going through menopause at 37. The bad news…
It’s back. I can feel it. It’s standing on the other side of the door. The door I locked and barred and barricaded long ago. It’s pressing on that door, looking for the weak point, the spot that will give and let it come crashing in. And while it searches, it’s snaking its tendrils through the cracks and crevasses. It’s wrapping those tendrils tight, round and round, and pulling me down. I can feel it in the weariness that goes all the way…
Nick was already a smoker when I met him. He had started when he was only 15. Just a few a day at first, while in high school. Then a pack a day. Eventually, a carton a week. I always hated that he smoked. His clothes sometimes smelled like stale cigarette smoke and kissing him within 10 minutes of smoking a cigarette was similar to what I imagine licking an ashtray must taste like (I never understood how anyone could…
Usually, I don’t much care what people spend their money on (so long as they aren’t buying an election or putting a hit on someone). I have encouraged people to be conscientious consumers: try not to buy stuff made by children living in squalor, try to buy local, if you can afford it, try to make sure you aren’t giving your hard earned money to companies that oppose your beliefs. These are things I try to do, and I admit, I…
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