Jinked

2010 was a lot of things. It was freedom. It was obsession. It was confronting fears and swallowing pride and asking for help. 2010 was writing not-yet-finished memoirs, six zines, short stories sent to literary journals. Four to six months is a long time to wait, but I will still keep writing. That memoir, I’m scrapping it, turning it fiction because that’s how I would [...]

Only because I didn’t get to see my family on Christmas. Sickness kept everyone at bay on different days, in different ways, so the least we could do is all get on the phone together (minus my sister who was sleeping her day away) and talk for awhile. It wasn’t the same. Granted I’m only 40 miles away from my parents, and a little over [...]

Winter wreaks havoc on me. It always has, ever since I was small. It aggravates my Rayndaud’s, triggers my dyshidrosis, and sucks whatever moisture I have left in my skin right out. But the thing I hate most about winter is the sharp mood change. The SAD. And since it happens every year, I view the low mood the same way I view the Raynaud’s [...]

So every year I do a post about Child’s Play Charity and the importance of video games in my life. For those of you who don’t know what Child’s Play is all about, I will just point you in the direction of the Wikipedia article. It says more than I ever could, and it has lots of lovely facts. To date the charity has raised [...]