“No,” her aunt told her emphatically after finishing reading the letter, “I’m not taking in your sister. Or any of you.” Then she lit a cigarette and looked away. This was the 1980s in Karatina when women didn’t smoke. …
I have Man Flu. But before that I had a stomach bug. I fought the stomach bug with Metronidazole and I was winning the fight, we were really killin those buggers called Giardia lamblia, knocking them over their heads …
Tamms is in high school. It’s wild, I know. She was literally born in this blog, in the very small fragile hours of the morning of 11th January 2008. She was handed to me immediately when she came out; …
“I don’t want a child who looks like that.” That’s what he told Rose when he first saw their infant baby, born with a cleft lip. He had come to visit the new mother and baby after all the …
He was not one to see a medicineman. Because it felt archaic and degenerative and as pointless as trying to inflate a balloon with a fart. He was a modern man, progressive both in idealism and spirituality. A man …
