2016-11-30 9:21:19 pm by ♥ℜø©♄ℯℓℓℯ in category Writing

I thought of you today, but I do that every day, even though it's been months. It's a daily ritual now. I wonder where you are, what you're feeling. Did you have a good day, or bad? Worries still plague me, like are you safe? Are you warm and do you have heat this winter? Do you have enough to eat? I still feel a desire to watch over you, to help you, but I can't. I think about...

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2016-08-14 10:55:53 pm by ♥ℜø©♄ℯℓℓℯ in category Writing

Dear shopper with 30+ items in the 20 Item or Less Speed Lane: I get that there are three lanes open out of about 40, not counting the Speed Lane and Self Checkout. I get that each of these lanes are brimming with people with full buggies, screaming kids, price checks, coupons, and things that lost their price tags between the shelf and scanner. I get that your time is valuable and, like much of...

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2016-05-16 8:59:50 pm by ♥ℜø©♄ℯℓℓℯ in category General

I get really tired of being treated as if I'm different or have some incurable disease that deserves pity. Really, really tired of it. Most days I ignore it, but today, I'm fed up. Guess what? I have Spina Bifida (SB). So what? I am not broken, I do not need to be fixed. Everywhere I turn I'm faced with subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) messages that I'm broken...

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