Tag: wedding

  • Creation

    On the eve of my art show – the art show that would decide the rest of my life – I saw a ghost.  Or at least the closest thing to a ghost as I could get.  Donnie had disappeared from my life two days before we were to get married.  Disappeared without a word…

  • Solar Eclipse

    I wanted to see the solar eclipse, but wasn’t sure I could handle being in the car with Adrian for that long.  I didn’t think I could listen to him mansplain the eclipse to me.  Again.  Repeatedly.  For six hours.  The one other time I had been stuck alone in the car with him, I…

  • The Wedding Dress

    The single photograph I had of my mother was from her wedding day.  And it was only of her.  Though I had no memories of my mother, the stories I had made up over the years about her childhood, college days and marriage to my father filled notebook upon notebook that I stashed on the…

  • How Could You?

    To this day, I never knew what you saw in him.  To this day, I wish I had been able to step in earlier than I did.  This way, you would still be here and I wouldn’t be missing you.  “I’m going to the library to meet up with James,” was the last thing I…

  • Pretend

    “You could at least pretend you liked each other.  At least for about thirty minutes while the speeches are happening.  Then you could go to opposite sides of the room and ignore each other.  Please.”  I tried to not beg Kristin to not start a fight with Kellie.  The two had been best friends until…