I’m sorry we never met. Mom tells me you were a great man. Dad and I don’t talk otherwise I might’ve learned that from him. Mom also thinks you made Mama and your boys better people. Is that something a father hopes for? There is so much we don’t know about you. I know you …
Author: elysamraib
a card i sent
dear mom, i bear some news. can’t say whether good or bad because it’s both, really. she wasn’t happy with me. sometimes we can love somebody with our everything and know that nothing we do or give is going to work. we must accept this and move forward hoping that happiness will eventually find them …
Happy Belated Birthday to Me
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 marked the start of my 27th year in this life. Every year, I fail to reflect because I’m surrounded by friends and family and friends that have become family who occupy my time and thoughts. This year was different. This year I had a stressful day at work, went to the …
Sunday Night Skate Sesh
All I needed today was to get off my ass and skate. It took until ten o’clock at night to do it. Shuffling past all the laundry there is no motivation to fold, I step into the bathroom. My face gets scrutinized in the mirror the way it always does. Gaze drifting across the stray …
8.18.2017
where do i feel i don’t belong? everywhere and nowhere. is that possible? it must be. how else can i feel it? it gets hazy when you don’t know where your boundaries lay. borders of boxes become muddled, muddied, smudged. boxes. all the boxes i’ve ever forced over my head and out of my throat. …
How I Started Using “Y’all” & Why You Should Too
From Merriam-Webster.com How y’all doing? Great? Good. In northeast Ohio where I grew up, almost nobody uses the contraction “y’all”. We are too far north for it to be an everyday colloquialism and often consider ourselves too “educated” to use something outside the realm of grammatical correctness. If the teachers can’t accept it written in a …