Tag Archive: fear

Jan 14 2011

disengaged: not even a clever title

When I was pregnant with my daughter, I read the bestseller “What to Expect When You are Expecting” until I knew each of the “nine month” descriptions word for word. The dogeared copy was my only link to the truth that things that I couldn’t watch from the outside were actually changing on the inside. …

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Oct 17 2009

There’s a Spider in My Bathroom

If a spider wants to live in my backyard, he is free to build a townhouse and put in his own swimming pool, for all that it matters to me. But, the inside of my house is off limits to anyone with eight legs. The conflict that arises in me when a spider comes scrambling …

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