I can’t tell you about the first time I ever let the sweet sticky juice of a pineapple run down my fingers tips because I don’t remember. But what I can tell you about is the first time I ever craved that sweet island fruit We we’re broke. The kind of broke that makes you want [...]
Before we got pregnant & had the abortion Shawn & had been slowly crumbling. The realization that our non- existent foundation was not enough to hold us during parental disputes, financial crisis and a pregnancy was enough to send us to a place of barely existing. And probably only existing together because really, after everything, what other choice [...]
It was May 5, 2007 and I walked out of the bathroom into my bedroom and laid the stick on the desk. It said I was pregnant. “Now what do we do?” I asked Shawn. He just kind of looked at me. We knew it was coming. We had joked about it really ever since [...]
I knew that one day we would spend hours in the blazing hot sun getting stuff ready for our two year olds birthday party. I knew that we’d wake up on Christmas morning together. I knew I’d roll over every day for the rest of my life next time him. And I knew that to [...]
Has it really been almost a month since my last installment of This is Us? If you are new here several weeks ago I decided to share with you the story of how Shawn & I met and how we came to be where we are now and even who we are. Our story is [...]
When I last left you on my whirlwind romance tour Shawn and I had just shared our first kiss. It was epic. It was a kiss that gives me strength when things aren’t so epic. But more on that later. So we’ll fast forward a few months after we first meet and jump right to [...]
If you haven’t had a chance to check out the 3 other post in the This Is Us series, click here, get up to speed and then come right back to hear more of this epic love story. After a little over a month of us doing the long distance dance (phone calls, AIM, video-chat, [...]
Edit: Linked up to Mama Kat’s Writers Workshop on 11/18 5.) That one time you met your online friend in real life (was it everything you thought it would be?) I know that I have been so bad about blogging lately that I’m probably losing readers in droves. So thank you to the one or [...]
The thing I love most about life is when you realize that one simple decision set the stage for your entire life. Good or bad. But let’s focus on the good for now. I made a decision about 5 years ago when I was dating someone else to join that now debunked social media website Myspace. That [...]
When I first started this blog the vast majority of people that read my blog we’re people I knew IRL. Therefore I didn’t always get down to nitty gritty details for no other reason then pride. I glossed over some of the rougher things to save face and because I wasn’t ready to share my [...]
