Bad things, good things, and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. And while the second and third things have blessed my life abundantly lately, it’s bad things I can’t help focusing on at the moment.
First, Emma toppled over the TV whilst performing some strange form of acrobatics and managed to fetch herself a glancing blow to the head. The hysterics that followed were mammoth. No bumps or bruises, thank heaven, but once I’d finally calmed her down I turned[...]
Archive for November 5th, 2008
A carefully crafted one, of course, but a lie nonetheless. I have taken my once useful skill of playing pretend (something that served me well in imagining up stories and games as a child – and writing English essays as a teen) and given it greater life application. So much is a facade and what really gets to me is that I used to be proud of the fact. Proud of how thoroughly I could fool people.
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