Catch up here with Part 1 and Part 2! There’s a lot of us who can testify to rock bottom. To wet faces pushed down in the carpet. Some of us have been there more than once. For me, it’s this place where the superficial foundation I’ve created for myself gives way, and I fall hard, and fast, and deep. …
Part 2: Resentful Jane
(Missed Part 1? Before you read on, catch up, and click right here !) When I gave up on being June, and decided I was a Jane, there was a certain amount of relief and rebellion that followed. I mean….remember that girl in high school who desperately wanted to be a cheerleader? She started preparing for the tryouts 4 years …
Part 1: Chasing June
On a warm weekday morning, during the spring of 1989, at approximately 12:15pm, you could have found me lying face down in the gravel on my school playground in the suburbs of Denver. My legs were in the spread-eagle position. And of course they were, because that’s basically what’s required to make face-down gravel humiliation complete. My mouth was open, …
Preface: My Ultimate Exhale
At the beginning of my sophomore year in high school, I had an English teacher who required all of his students to go out and buy Big Chief notebooks. They were horribly ugly things, with brick red covers and gritty gray lined pages. He told us that our ongoing assignment for the year was to fill a page in the …
Counting Down….
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