Walking Home

We were walking wounded that night. She has white hair, and uses a cane. She also has the neatly layered mind of someone who could either be described as “mentally disabled” or “serene.” For my part, I was walking gingerly through a stitch of pain. A roaring charley horse had woken me up the night […]

Household Words: Episode 1

Although I didn’t like the house, that doesn’t mean I enjoyed watching it burn. It was poorly designed. The floor plan was awkward. And I didn’t like the look of it. There were two gables in the top, Siamese twins. One set of eyes was Ellen’s bedroom, veiled in white, and the other was her […]

Stepping Stones

As I mentioned in our last episode, I was recently visited by a screeching demon of a panic attack, followed by days of anxious malaise– all less charming than Woody Allen movies might suggest. One particularly nasty problem with a panic attack is that you feel isolated. Of course, you are isolated, to an extent. […]

Jellyfish

Having a panic attack at Disney World is the lamest thing a brain could possibly do. And I’m speaking as a person with a disturbingly overactive, relentlessly arrogant brain. It’s helped me accomplish a lot of work faster than others expected me to– I have a quick brain, that absorbs and sorts well. With the […]