She’s the loving aunt who demonstrates it by cooking your special treat, by insisting you eat, by hurt feelings if anything remains of a feast that would have served three times the crowd. She’s the friend who shared your clothes, […]
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A Day in a Life
A boy in Goldthwaite, Texas, a girl in Cincinnati, older than their years. Born without an aorta Jae Head knows his mind, his dream. His film career can wait — he has high school football to play and his ninety-five […]
Continue reading »Comparing Insides to Outsides
I look at you and see excellence, confidence, accomplishment, polish, perfection. I look at me and see cowardice, timidity, uncertainty, irresolution, weakness, a perfectionist who settles for being perfectly awful. But then I find someone who has what I want…not […]
Continue reading »Outright Mental Defectives
It did not satisfy us to be told that we could not control our drinking just because we were maladjusted to life, that we were in full flight from reality, or were outright mental defectives. These things were true to […]
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Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it. ~ Steve Chandler A friend of mine identifies as a defiant perfectionist. I’m not that. Sometimes it feels like I’m trying not […]
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