Tacking Up for Christmas
Last Christmas season, my then-boyfriend and I were riding around with my parents after sunset. We had probably just eaten some too-salty Mexican food at a nearby dive when we drove past someone’s lit up reindeer. I know you’ve seen them. Those white holiday reindeer that the less savory members of society see fit to display on their lawns beginning three days before Thanksgiving and ending a week before Valentine’s Day. This year, they released
I Remember those Bats in the Belfry
Written for a personal website in 1996
Quite an eventful day, really. What with all of the tornadoes all around, I don’t expect to sleep tonight. Bad weather has always terrified me. Once, when I was little, I moved all of my “personal belongings” (which consisted of my journal, photo albums and guinea pigs) to the basement of our house because there was a tornado watch for our county. Another time, not so far in
