Mother did not know she was pregnant with me until I crowned in the car as Father rushed her to the hospital. It was a family secret until her confession to my sister Bridget, several years before she died. Bridget kept it from me until after she was gone. Mother did what her mother… Continue reading An Entry into Insecure Attachment by Suzanna Birdway
Category: Memoir
Safe Harbor by Kitta MacPherson
The building roars and rumbles as the school’s “Group” period ends. Hundreds of teenage boys stream out of classrooms and into hallways, pushing, taunting, humming, poking, laughing, chatting. Brother Asiel and I are salmons swimming against the hallway’s tide. As the teenage boys of St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in… Continue reading Safe Harbor by Kitta MacPherson