In June, two weeks before our wedding, my fiance left me for a woman at work. She was younger, slimmer,…
I was uncomfortable. A general malaise had descended upon me and I could no longer take a single breath without…
In my mother’s generation, there were human beings called men. Men were also fathers. I would have a father. It’s…
They have ripped me from history like a superfluous page. I was a great queen. I had a brilliant mind…
It is so unfair of Daddy to force me to keep doing it. A twelve-year-old girl should be able to…
Milk, milk, milk, I always forget to buy milk. So sick of drinking sour stuff. Yuck. Ham, eggs, fresh bread,…
I have read nine hundred books. Yes, I have. Cover to cover. I have them in my bookcases, on my…
‘Are these your children?’ the stranger at my front door asked me. She was a stern looking woman in a…
It is strange. Words. I know so many. Yet seem unable to convey my meaning with any of them. I…
Even serial killers can forget to buy milk.