Serious Stuff

the behavior contract: in depth

February 1, 2012

Last week, after I posted the behavior contract, a very keen reader noticed and pointed out that the words I penned back in 2007 suspiciously skirted the topics of sex and dating.  While that may seem like a heinous oversight, rest assured that it wasn’t.  While I omitted that stuff from the ink, I certainly [...]

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a different kind of tired

January 8, 2012

3612 Dayton Street.  A town nobody could pronounce in a state known for it’s peaches and boiled peanuts and confederate die-hards.  30815.  I lived in a house that backed up to a pine forest–trees bigger than I dared to dream. The three babies under my feet left me worn and weary with their squeaky but [...]

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Will Starve For Food

July 31, 2011

Hey Peeps – Torri here. You’ve heard a lot about me, but recently I’ve been so moved by a cause that Mom decided to let me do a guest blog post to look for support and spread the word. It’s called World Vision. Every August, they hold a big event called the 30 Hour Famine [...]

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#savealife

June 28, 2011

It’s been almost two years since The Accident. Almost two years since I wrote this post. My friend, Steph, left a comment on that post, promising me that over time the images trapped in my memory would lose their sharpness.  They’d grow dull.  Confession: I didn’t believe her. Turns out she was right.  No longer [...]

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Where I’m From

June 27, 2011

I am from glowing candles on a Van de Kamps cake, from Ford and rollie pollies. I am from the mint green duplex on the corner… 415…the cracked stucco, the stoop with no rail. I am from the lilac bush hollowed out like a fort, the purple petals raining down like wishes falling from the [...]

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Reason We Rejoice

April 22, 2011

When I was little, my mom and my Grams used to take my brothers and I to church on Good Friday.  It was the most somber service of the church year.  We’d enter in silence to find the altar draped in black cloths.  The pastor read passages from Scripture and after a selection of verses [...]

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Looking Upward

January 12, 2011

Tragedy in Tucson, or so it has been dubbed, brought the nation to its knees last weekend when a senseless young man so callously committed a senseless act that took the lives of six upstanding Americans.  But it didn’t stop there; when he took aim at those people not only did he end their lives, [...]

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