Growing Old

  • Growing Old

    How Now

    Life is difficult. Is it really possible that my mother ingrained in me not to speak up because I was such a pain in the ass on the spectrum, she didn’t know how to handle me so as an obedient child she kept me quiet? Or was I on the…

  • Growing Old

    Mirror Mirror

    I looked in the mirror and seemed so old. It’s like I’ve aged 10 years in the past 2. When I married Peter he called me “Wifey Face” because I was quite the looker. I just wanted to get married, it didn’t matter with whom. After all, my oldest brother…

  • Growing Old

    Life Is Unfair

    It doesn’t seem fair sometimes when I think about my life, I had so many things going for me, but I was repeatedly flattened like kryptonite. I worked for school system and developed a database which integrated their payroll in time and substitute pay payroll and new time off record.…

  • Growing Old

    Fifty Nifty

    Shortly after I turned 50 the ground beneath my feet was torn away. Like an explosion that left me shell-shocked. The gravity shifted and time warped because I was suddenly 9 years old again. The lost little girl trying to convince everyone around her that life was good, everything was…