There was a summer, many years ago, when M and I were first dating. We met during our one and only overlapping semester in graduate school, but we opted not to date each other until we started living 560 miles apart. Those were long miles back then – on two lane roads for the most…
Tag: reminiscing
still climbing the hill
All details rendered below might be slightly off due to the age of the writer and her sometimes tenuous grasp on the act of recall. ….. I grew up in a small town, with limited retail options. There wasn’t a Walmart there until I was almost gone. If you needed a new school outfit then…
sketches underfoot
This is not my first stress fracture. My first fracture happened sometime during the fall of 1996, although it would be several more weeks before anyone used the words osso rotto with me. The pain was intermittent at first, and it only made me cry once. Once just happened to be at night, at the…