No, not me, this is not about my cancer, but about cancer attacking those parts of our bodies that define us as women; humans capable…
I stayed awake one night, with a big knife placed on my wrist. Yes, it was big, and it was also blunt. I was a…
All my life I believed my inability to curtail my eccentricity lead to my own isolation. I felt a shadow in a psychedelic world.
Jung…
My mom bought me a little fridge magnet once and it had two squirrels on it with the phrase “my family tree is full of…
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I think it was my 10th birthday party when I blew out the candles on my birthday cake and wished that I could…
My first time was awful. I was seventeen, not ready for sex by any standards, and I was distracted. When I wasn’t thinking ‘Ow!’, I…
A few mornings ago, I was completing my oral hygiene routine with the obligatory holding-the-mouthwash-in-your-mouth-no-matter-how-much-it-hurts ritual, when a thought hit me. With mouthwash, when it…
I think I must have been 13 years old when the thought of masturbating first occurred to me. I was sent the strangest emails of…
One late afternoon while a group of us were sitting in a circle on the grass, the just comfortably warm enough sun setting lazily, making…
My parents moved around a lot and I was often taken out of one school to start in the next in the middle of a…