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doing the dance
Today I saw a boy almost throw a brick at his mother. He was yelling at her to “stay away” and screaming “I don’t care.” I watched from a second floor window as he raised the brick and dared his mother to come closer. I knew he didn’t quite mean it because I’d been that
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A Host of Problems
Eating Jesus made me feel closer to Heaven and gave me something I could share with Sr. Mary Frances when she accused me of not loving God. I would tell her I practiced all the time and was getting holier by the day. I recreated the sacrament of communion at home, with the help of
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Bad Habit
Do nuns wear those funny outfits out of habit or do they wear them to intimidate? Experience tells me nuns were not chosen to serve God but to antagonize those who believe in God so that His job in determining who’ll make it to heaven will be easier. I’ve had nuns rap me on the knuckles,
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Gift Whorse
Growing up I had two and one-half sets of teeth and when I was twelve I had to have surgery to remove nine of the permanents. I was ill from the thought at having them pulled because my uncle Larry had been born with a full third set and the stories of his mother, my mother’s mother, pulling
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Off Color Remarks
I know this guy. You know him too. He’s a little bit country, a little bit rock ‘n roll, a little bit racist and a little bit misogynistic. He’s full of off-color jokes and thinks #metoo was all about him. He has a voice and he thinks it matters. Fact is, it does. This is
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Picture This
I was probably 13 when my dad pulled out his book of dead people, photos tethered to the page with white, glued triangles. Although thin, there were photos of many of my family members at the last stages of their lives. If my dad was lucky he would’ve snapped the photo at the person’s last
All In Passing 