Spending the last three weeks dwelling on my family’s tragic history was tough work. Healing the mind is different from healing the body. When healing a cut, you bandage it up and keep it clean and let it close. Healing the mind requires you to reopen the wound again and again until the water runs …
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One grandma’s basement full of treasure is another girl’s basement full of junk
When I was a senior in high school, my mom went on a trip to Spain to visit her relatives and I had the house to myself for a whole week. Naturally, I decided to throw a Halloween party. Since I live in a townhouse, I knew I had to offer the first floor and …
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Honey, I shrunk the closet!
After spending most of my life getting hand-me-downs from my two older sisters, the second I started getting money from work, it all started going to buying clothes. It was like something in my brain switched on and I suddenly couldn’t own enough clothing. I impulsively bought anything that even remotely caught my eye. I …
Sorting Through The Cosmetics
Let’s first start with my addiction to cosmetics. It all started when I had to tag along when my mom drove my sister Cristi and her friend Sarah to high school in the mornings. I was in elementary school so I wasn’t old enough to stay home alone. Sarah sat in the back with me …
Anna Hovet 