Nightmare

I was shot last night. Through the arm, in the chest, by an intruder I didn’t know. I screamed, my voice raw and terrified, trying to wake someone, anyone. My father, asleep a moment ago on the couch beside me, was gone. Perhaps if I scream louder he’ll hear me….

The Beauty of Childbirth

The Beauty of Childbirth             At about one in the morning, December 4th, 1993, I was born. I was kicked out of my room in my mother’s stomach and forced into the hands of one of the doctors in the Sacred Heart hospital in Spokane, Washington. I’m grateful they didn’t…