What are you up to this weekend? Since my boys are away, Freddie and I came upstate to work during the day, swim in the evening, and see a million stars at night. Can you see stars where you live?
I sat in the library for 3 hours thinking while I didn’t go there for that, I was preparing for the exam I went to study for, and it turned into a moment of reflection.
I was born in the last year of the Baby Boom into an essentially all-white, all-Mormon community in Southern Utah. Six decades later, I am no longer Mormon, no longer white, and finally ready to share my story.
I should have. I wanted to. But I didn’t. And now I keep wondering why I didn’t say something when I had the chance. Maybe I was scared you’d laugh. Or
First I graduated, till then I counted years as if they start on September. Well my birthday is in September, also school years begin on that month; which was a pretty big deal.
Imagine if you were in my shoes, 17 years old, born somewhere else but calling Australia home since you were 8, yet feeling more afraid than ever to step outside. That’s my reality. I’m an Indian girl, an Australian citizen,
Aku tidak berencana masuk ke salon kecil di ujung gang di Jalan Cendana. Tapi hujan turun tiba-tiba—bukan hujan romantis seperti di film, melainkan hujan tropis Samarinda yang mengubah jalanan
It’s strange how silence doesn’t come all at once. We meet everyday, we fall in the same space, it’s like a shadows walking the same path but is never overlapping. How he treats me isn’t like how he used to,
