Personal Essays & Reflections

D.E.B.R.A.

D.E.B.R.A.

I am the person whose egg participated in your lifeIt wasn't just meThe sperm donor was your fatherHe wasn't around much after the first few yearsThey say I kept him away from youMaybe parts of me didI was hurt and very much emotionally unavailable to everyoneWe were...

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Why?

Why?

In order to regain a best connection with my inner young adult, I decided to listen to all my old cassette tapes (more than 150!). Thanks to osteopathic care, I suffer less from hyper-acousia, and have become able to listen to music again, but no more than one or two...

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Sous le maquillage

Sous le maquillage

Je croyais naïvement au dicton populaire « Donner, c’est donner. Reprendre, c’est voler ».  Mais j’ai découvert récemment qu’une somme rondelette, reçue en « cadeau » il y a 15 ans, était en réalité munie d’un « élastique de rappel ». Sous le maquillage, la belle...

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Pomegranate Trees

Pomegranate Trees

The trees had been described as “deer resistant”, language that is ambiguous because it depends on how hungry the deer are. The family of three that felt comfortable in my backyard were really hungry. I had bought the pomegranate trees as memorials for my daughter,...

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