by jo | Feb 17, 2015 | Everyday Stories, Memoir & Essays, People I meet, Stories By Jo
photo credit: Ti scriverò…. via photopin (license) The idea came in waves. As a journalism student in college, I was always writing news articles that answered the big 6 questions: Who, what, where, when, why, how, and the bonus 7th question: so what). My senior...
by jo | Feb 3, 2015 | Everyday Stories, Memoir & Essays
Some names and identifying circumstances may have been changed for the sake of those involved. “I don’t forgive you.” Those were the words I wrote near the beginning of the letter. He’d written me a letter apologizing for a mountain of pains and wounds, and asking me...
by jo | Dec 30, 2014 | Everyday Stories
“How are you?” he asked me, having come up to me in church and hugged me. “I’m OK,” I said, though eyes rimmed in tear-smeared mascara-clad eyelashes. I smiled. Then the tears started again softly. Unexpected kindness brings them out. Well, it’s one of the...
by jo | Nov 25, 2014 | Everyday Stories
It’s odd, because this is now the end of November, and for a month that is usually saturated in social media posts about thankfulness, I actually have only seen 2 posts of the sort this month. The month has flown by for me, and without being intentional to...
by jo | Sep 30, 2014 | Everyday Stories, fitness and health, Myths & Cliches
Tackling Myths & Cliches: Whatever Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger 50 MPH speed limit. That seems fast for this road. But OK. I’ll go 50. Shoot this hill is long. I hear my dad’s mantra: “Don’t ride your breaks. They’ll burn out.” Ok, I’ll keep it near 50. 53....