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I knew exactly what was going to happen.  And I knew exactly what time it was going to happen.  My mother had never been good at keeping secrets and I was not good at surprises.  We both knew this and my sister often had to run interference.  I didn’t even know how she could be my mother since there was…

When Eddie Mayford was killed, everyone was shocked.  Eddie was the nicest one in our entire town and now he was dead.  Dead and nobody knows why.  The police released a statement of ‘no comment’ so I know that must mean there is something going on they don’t want the public to know.  I have been in…

The whole experience made me bang my head against my desk.  Jackson had a way of pushing every button I felt was off limits.  I never knew if he was doing it on purpose or not, but the way he continued to push, he had to know how I felt.  Even when I tried to avoid him, he…

I always had to have fresh flowers in my apartment.  It was a tradition started by my mother and I have never been able to let the tradition die.  The local flower shops know me by name, but I am beginning to get worried about my finances.  As the years have gone on, the price of flowers have slowly…

Because I am grumpy, I do not like change.  I do not want large groups of people moving into town and I don’t want to have to wait in line to buy groceries.  Call me a curmudgeon if you want to, but I like what I like.    Here’s what’s happening.  My neighborhood is about to change and I don’t like it.  There is a…

I really wanted to love Chicago, I really did.  I always had dreams about living in a big city that never sleeps and being able to access all the art museums and listen to live music.  I wanted to be able to immerse myself in the culture I had longed to be a part of for years.  Coming from a town that shut down at seven…

“That’s the thing about this city.  You never know who or what is going to show up next.”  My father was once again warning me about the crime rate in our town of roughly 2,000 people.  The most exciting thing that had happened in town was when a movie ‘director’ showed up unexpectedly and said he wanted to use the townspeople…

I had longed for a room of my own since my sister was born.  Now that I had my own room, I wasn’t sure I wanted it.  A room to myself was quiet and lonely and I wasn’t sure how I felt about that.  Amelia and I had been sharing a room since she was able to sleep in a twin…

The only time we ever got to spend the night in a hotel was almost ruined by my brother’s insistence that we order room delivery.  He believed no one in their right mind could eat plain peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in a room this nice.  Larry needed a hamburger and a cold Coca-Cola.  Why that was the nicest…

My mom always told me that it was necessary for our souls to go on a journey so we could learn something.  That’s usually because she was getting us kicked out of apartment after apartment after she constantly was warned about being too loud.  She had never had an ‘inside’ voice and never seemed to learn…