It’s My BIRTH Day

My Birthday! I freaking LOVE my birthday. LOVE it. It’s my Heather Holiday.  It usually starts about a week before November 23rd and can roll all the way into the middle of December. I can use this time as an excuse to do or not do things, buy myself presents, and Read more…

The Roar of Harleys

Dad had cancer. I had just graduated from college and was working for Jack Gibson Construction Company in their accounting department. Every day after work I would travel from Warren to Southside Hospital in Youngstown to sit with him. Seeing the strongest man I knew deteriorate to nothing was hard Read more…

Men Don’t Cry

East Florida Street. I wish I could remember how long it took me to tell my Dad about the lies that Stormie told me on that Wednesday night. Maybe a few months or maybe a few days. My memory of childhood events is pretty awful. Dad was living on East Read more…

The Truth Lies at the Bottom of Her Bottle

Drunk again. She promised me that if I moved in with her, she would only drink on the weekends. It was Wednesday night. I walked through the door after church to the site of Stormie, my biological mother, holding a pile of her beautiful red hair on top of her Read more…