Hungry for…
Recently, I’ve been hungry. I’ve been hungry for knowledge and I’ve been hungry for […]
Author: hopefulmidwesterner
Being Awkward
I like to think that maybe I’ve grown into my painfully awkward self, and become more socially acceptably awkward, but […]
Full of Ideas
Sometimes I have ideas. (Don’t we all?) Sometimes I have ideas that […]
Give It An Identity
My new therapist asked me a question two weeks ago that I honestly couldn’t answer:
‘What would your life look like, without anxiety?’
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This made me stop dead in my tracks. I tried to think of […]
The Girl in the Purple Coat
Let’s be honest: Middle school sucks. For everyone. For me, middle school was hell, because I had severe acne, was already 5’8″, a little more than 100 pounds, and had just recently started with the whole orthodontia business. I was a lanky, pimply, metal mouthed mess […]
Bicicletta
This weekend I made my first big Craigslist purchase, and folks: I think I’m in love […]
Man/Woman/Other
A friend of mine once commented on how I take my coffee. (It’s actually quite comical, because Martin asks if I want any coffee with my milk in the mornings) And when I asked my friend, “Are you judging?” […]
The Best Voicemail Ever
If you’ve ever lived in an apartment with multiple levels, you may be quite familiar with this story, or at least something quite like it. The first apartment I got when I moved down to Florida was on the second floor in a cute little complex filled with a beautiful array of people: from the older folks with tiny yappy dogs, to a local police officer with a gigantic German Shepherd who had failed out of the Police Dog Academy […]
Traditions
For me, holidays never had much religious meaning. For me, they’re are all about family, tradition, being together and […]
Janusz’s Belt
There were a few consecutive years, when I was between seven and ten, where we had nothing but construction going on in our home. I got to know the foreman […]
A Hopeful Midwesterner 