Tag: Ending

The Ending Things

I would bawl my eyes out of the blue when I heard the words die and death mentioned on their lips. It can be tempting to give up and say, “I want to die!” every time the world teases you with unpleasant tasks and situation. I wondered how much suffering and misery you have been...

After All These Years: The Complete Story of How I Lost My Eye, Not Just the Gory Ending

I’m often asked to tell the story of how I lost my eye. Except people don’t want the whole story, just the gory final scene. This is a shame because there is more to it than the blood and guts, and until now, that’s the only part of the story I have told. Today, that changes. Fro...

Technology: The Never Ending Addiction

As a college student looking back at my own childhood and remembering the good old times when I was running around outside on the grass or inventing new games to play, whether it was alone or with the people around me, I look at the generation experiencing early youth now and see the generic iPad ki...

Ending the War With My Body

It’s been two years since my last doctor’s appointment. At that visit our discussion was shrouded by social distancing and early motherhood. It was a time when I desperately begged for closeness and the world replied with a stern and final, “No.” My days were held together wi...