Lately I've been having conversations with various friends about which words and terms that are not "four-letter-words" were still forbidden in our homes growing up. A couple of people have told me "shut up" was/is on this list of things you just don't say. It was never directly expressed that that is off limits for my family, but it really wasn't ( Read more... )

I remember when I was younger I had this idea that pain had a finite amount (though my 8-year-old mind didn't word it that way). If I had a bruise, I would sometimes press into it. Deeply. With the idea that I would wear the pain out so that eventually it would essentially exhaust itself and stop hurting. I didn't know how to describe this. To this ( Read more... )