When I was ten, my parents bought me a notebook. “Tina,” they said, “you talk so much about so many things. Why don’t you write your thoughts down?” So I did.I was an only child with an active imagination, so I wrote every day. I wrote about all the things that I wanted to sayContinue reading “Losing Track of Time: Growing Up Too Soon”
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An Invitation One Can’t Refuse
I knew that he would come to dinner because he knew how important this one evening was. Prior to dinner, we had argued. We had stayed in touch, but we hadn’t seen each other in months. It took me courage to ask him to come to my place. He had been there several times before.Continue reading “An Invitation One Can’t Refuse”
The Lesson We Cannot Forget
The most delicious meal I’ve ever eaten is the meal I had after I found out the truth about my sister. My parents adopted her when I was eighteen and she was sixteen. I never asked for a sister. She was terrible. She borrowed my clothes without asking and we fought about almost everything. OneContinue reading “The Lesson We Cannot Forget”
How Much Would You Pay for Freedom
I had one important goal in life: to make as much money as I could, so I could be the perfect son and perfect husband to the girl I wanted to marry. To me, freedom meant giving my girlfriend anything she wanted to make her happy. Of course, it was a dream come true whenContinue reading “How Much Would You Pay for Freedom”
Would you return to the past if you could?
If you could return to the past, what moment would you revisit or redo? I learned that returning to the past didn’t necessarily mean revisiting yesterday. It could also mean precious time with family, an opportunity that I wouldn’t have had if I hadn’t won a prize. “Where are we, Mom?” The building we wereContinue reading “Would you return to the past if you could?”
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