by jo | Oct 7, 2015 | Memoir & Essays
The dress is white, sleeveless, summery. The fabric is decorated with large, orangish flowers — daisies maybe — flowers painted in a way to give the dress more a sense of womanhood than girlhood. It falls just below my knees, or at least it did the last time I wore...
by jo | Sep 29, 2015 | Everyday Stories, Memoir & Essays
I was walking by the river with my little puppy the other day, like I do almost days. We were approaching the first bridge that the path crosses under, but were still a ways off when I started to hear their whistles and hollers. I couldn’t distinguish their...
by jo | Sep 22, 2015 | Everyday Stories, Memoir & Essays
I like to have roots. But you wouldn’t necessarily know it, looking at the past eight years of my life. In those eight years I have moved 16 times. Sometimes as small of moves as moving into a new dorm room across the hall. Sometimes as large a move as moving to...
by jo | Sep 8, 2015 | Memoir & Essays
Selfies are not new. They just do something new. For centuries, probably millennia, people have been creating self portraits. The camera is a unique medium to create self portraiture with though, because while it is still an art form, it’s a mode of capturing as...
by jo | Sep 1, 2015 | Everyday Stories, Memoir & Essays
It is monday night and I’m currently sitting in a sonic drive-in parking spot, not ordering or eating delicious ice cream creations, but instead waiting for my car to cool off. My hood is up because it started to overheat and turning the heater on as soon as I saw the...