I sometimes wonder if it's just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they're supposed to be by going nowhere.
An oncology ward is a battlefield, and there are definite hierarchies of command. The patients, they're the ones doing the tour of duty. The doctors breeze in and out like conquering heroes, but they...
Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.
As she gets sicker, she fades a little more, until I am afraid one day I will wake up and not be able to see her at all.
You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.
A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat...
You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.
Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.