My dad is nonreligious, and my mom is the Witness in the family. Since my dad worked a lot while we lived in Puerto Rico, mom mostly took care of me, and thus, I was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness. For most of my life, holidays weren’t a big deal. The closest we ever came to celebrating Thanksgiving was eating “fall food” the day before Thanksgiving (“that which we call a rose by any other name is still as sweet,” in my humble opinion, but whatever).
November 17, 2011 by Debbie
Why I don’t care for the holidays
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October 19, 2011 by Debbie
Grandmother
My great grandmother, who preferred to simply be called Grandmother, was some of the only family that I was exposed to when I moved here on September 23, 2000. She was the only family my mother seemed to approve of my keeping in touch with… even then, I received mixed signals from my mother. A ‘loving home life’ with ‘lots of communication’ is somewhat of a foreign concept to me. Sure, I saw cousins from time to time, but only with my sister – and even that was something that changed over time.
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September 24, 2011 by Debbie
Worst Blogger Ever: Checking In
Dearest Readers,
I apologize for leaving you hanging for weeks at a time. School has, unfortunately, consumed my soul. Actually, it’s not unfortunate – I like being busy. That’s a blog post for another time, though.
Many of my classes require a lot of reading and writing this semester – not only my writing class, but also my Philosophy class. It’s all very time-consuming.
However, I haven’t forgotten you.
No, sir.
I want to share my most recent paper, from my writing class – my Personal Narrative. This was supposed to be a 1200-1800 Personal Narrative for my Writing and Composition class – not a special/elective class, just a class that I took as part of my core requirement. The assignment was to write a narrative that explored a family conflict that formed a major part of my identity.
So, you now have something to read. Since this is my blog and I can say whatever the fuck I want, including being an egomaniac about how awesome it is, I’ll say this: I had to go to the Writing Center on campus to get it critiqued, and the person who read it had no critique for me. He said it was an amazing paper and he couldn’t think of anything to say that was wrong with it. I also had another writer friend critique it for me and she told me it was fabulous, as well.
In other words, it’s 1800 words, which is a line over 6 double-spaced pages, but it’s a good read.
Trust me. You’ll like it.
- Debbie
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May 28, 2011 by Debbie
Maintaining Gender Neutrality in Children
I realize that this is incredibly late and that I’ve been a bad blogger this week. Sorry.
This Stolen Thought is a little different. However, for Stolen Thought Saturday, I reserve the right to share news articles. The article is called “Parents keep child’s gender secret.” The parents basically aren’t telling anyone whether the baby is a boy or a girl, so that he or she will be treated neutrally. The parents are also treating the child neutrally, basically to give the child the freedom to grow up free from gender restraints. *
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