by jo | Mar 29, 2016 | Everyday Stories
Roommate: Julie – From 1992-2001, (my) Ages 3-11. Award: Roommate I lived with Longest When I was born, I was told that my older siblings had fought over whether I would be a girl or boy, because they each had wanted me as a roommate. But when I spent the first...
by jo | Mar 22, 2016 | Everyday Stories, Memoir & Essays
Roommate Series Episode 1: Jason (Roommate from 1989-1992, Ages 0-3) I was two years old when I got my first watch. The youngest of three, I’d been fascinated by watches for a long time as my parents, and then my older siblings had gotten theirs in their own time. I...
by jo | Mar 15, 2016 | Everyday Stories
Over the next few months I’ll be working on a small e-book project about the things no one talks about when they talk about grief. Obviously, I write about grief a lot, and I wish when I was first experiencing grief that I could’ve found some pretty...
by jo | Mar 8, 2016 | Memoir & Essays
Sunday March 7, 2004 The next morning our family friend drove Jason and I and her two daughters (my friends) back to the hospital early in the morning. It was a Sunday and we arrived just in time to say goodbye to Julie before her heart monitor beeps went to a flat...
by jo | Mar 1, 2016 | Everyday Stories, Memoir & Essays
When I was a probably four or five years old, I really wanted a horse. I’d been praying for one for a long time. Our next door neighbors had a pasture with horses in it. Our next door neighbors on the other side often had horses in their pasture. And while we...