Listen to my Voice (Guest Post by Macy Robison)
***WE HAVE A WINNER! Bethany, Congratulations. I’ll get a copy of Macy’s CD out to you right away.*** Today, we have a guest post from a wonderful friend I’ve loved since I was sixteen. (Yes. I was...
View ArticleDear 17-year-old Becca
There are some things I want to say to you, seventeen-year-old me. You’ve had a rough couple of years. You lost your mom. You moved halfway across the country, from the land of many trees and much...
View ArticleTo the Moon
Guys. Look at this. It is so cool. This is the speech that President Nixon had his speech-writer (William Safire) prepare in case the Apollo 11 mission (that’s Armstrong on the moon, children) had...
View ArticleRemain Unnamed
Years ago, I used to see her always: Cook things at her house. Help her fold her laundry. Once we made sweet bread — Zucchini or banana, I don’t remember. It hardly matters now. When we pulled it from...
View ArticleI Was Never Abandoned
My parents never left me anywhere. Once upon the late seventies, a two-car, two-family caravan mixup resulted in leaving my cousin Rebecca (not to be confused with my sister Becky or, you know, me) at...
View ArticleTwenty-Five Years Ago Today
Five years ago today, I posted this. I’m reposting it now because reasons. Mainly that I was thinking about it this morning and so I shared it with my English classes. I cried when I read it to them –...
View ArticleCrazy-Amazing
Some days you want to forget, you hear me? And then there are days like yesterday. I never want to forget yesterday. Because Amazing, is why. So I got called down to the principal’s office, which is...
View ArticleLong, long ago…
I just had occasion to remember something. When I was in 7th grade, (can you, reader, already feel the tension mounting? the horror building?) I had a co-ed PE class. (Now? Now can you feel it,...
View ArticleUnanswerable
Dear Friend, Letters are the only way I can talk to you now. For six months I’ve tried to write about you, about what you have meant to me all the years of my life since I was seven. I’ve tried to...
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