If you haven’t known me long enough, you might not know that I homeschooled in 9th and 10th grade. The fact is, I don’t really talk about it because I consider it a dark period in my life in which I suffered from a very similar, though more rudimentary depression and loneliness that I did… Continue reading Video Homeschooling and the Beltway Snipers
Category: memoir
Chapters of my life written as a narrative story.
Stories from my Childhood: Tel-Aviv Terrorist Attacks
I was curled up on the floor next to the bed. My body pretzeled into a mutated half-prone position as cold sweat altered the chemical relationship between my body and the thin layer of carpet. My parents were only three feet away, lying unconscious on the bed, but that fact only made the terror worse.… Continue reading Stories from my Childhood: Tel-Aviv Terrorist Attacks
The Indiana Story
I’m about to give this a shot in one sitting. For some of you who know me, the following story might be familiar. I have a few blockbuster stories in my repertoire. The Slide Story is a humorous tale of clumsiness and one lapse in judgment one of accidental and intentional falling from playground slides.… Continue reading The Indiana Story
emotional pavement – memories of times I’ve been lucky
I hate writing something and feeling like there was just a vacuum that sucked out all of the eloquence, coherency, and poignancy I was hoping for, but it is an unfortunate result of writing that we sometimes all encounter. Oh well.. here we go: Being emotionally flattened is an interesting thing. From what I hear,… Continue reading emotional pavement – memories of times I’ve been lucky