Posts Tagged ‘fear’

If walls could talk

Jun
2011
09

posted by on large family

11 comments

I sit on the front steps of the house that I will soon call home. I try to memorize the view so that in years to come, I can remember. If I close my eyes and concentrate, I can remember parts of every place I have ever lived. The walls of each of those places [...]

Snakes

Sep
2010
02

posted by on fear, writing

7 comments

I’m standing in the middle of the formal dining room at my grandparents house. There’s a large picture window on one wall and the room is wide and opens into an adjacent room. There’s an old grandfather clock in the corner. I stand there, taking in my surroundings, sensing something wrong. As I pan the [...]

Fear

Jul
2010
15

posted by on fear, motherhood

6 comments

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson I admit it. I’m a big fat chicken sometimes. I am not indestructible. I am utterly, and totally aware of my humanity. I wouldn’t say that I’ve overcome any of my fears, but I have definitely stared some of them [...]

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