Kickoff

I had to keep telling myself to calm down. It was hard not to be excited, playing in the showcase game of your professional life. Read more

30 Jan 2012 ⋅ by MarenB ⋅ in Featured, Writing ⋅ 0 Comments ⋅ Tags: blood, career, contract, crowd, defense, drill, family, father, football, instinct, Kickoff, kids, life, Michael Webb, Monday Night Football, obituary game, opponent, physics, playoffs, ref, sports, spudrph, stadium, succeed, tackle, teams, tension, vilence

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Indecision

He looked comfortable in the big-boned wooden seat, making some sounds I tried not to understand. He snatched up the papers as the waiter placed our drinks in front of us. A latte for me, a double espresso for him. “Check, please,” I said.
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23 Dec 2011 ⋅ by KevinS ⋅ in Featured, Writing ⋅ 0 Comments ⋅ Tags: Bukowski, career, Indecision, Melissa R., suicide

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The Hardest Job In The World

Parenting is the hardest job in the world. Read more

09 Dec 2011 ⋅ by AnastaciaC ⋅ in Featured, Writing ⋅ 0 Comments ⋅ Tags: career, childhood, children, choices, economy, family, freedom, generations, grandfather, grandmother, grandparents, guilt, hardship, home, job, Kirsten Doyle, life, Love, parenting, runningforautism, South Africa, War, women, world, World War II, writing

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Cat on the High Dive

In my dream, my son is far ahead of me, just around the corner, I think. I can’t see him, but I hope he is there. I move faster, my eyes scanning the horizon, ravenous for any glimpse of his small silhouette as proof he is not lost. He’s been gone for hours, but I control my panic and tell myself if I just keep moving, just keep looking, I will find him. When my fear can no longer be suppressed and I am on the verge of hysteria, I awake abruptly. Read more

17 Mar 2008 ⋅ by IndieInkArchive ⋅ in Writing ⋅ 0 Comments ⋅ Tags: career, children, culture, families, family, father, fatherhood, fear, home, husband, life, living, marriage, Mayberry Magpie, Men and Women, modern family, mother, motherhood, parenting, role reversal, stay at home father, stay at home parent, wife, work, working mother

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Time travel to 2005

As Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance echoes throughout Northrup Auditorium on a blooming spring day, your future seems full of freedoms and open doors. No more cramming for that final exam you know you’re going to fail anyway. No more listening to inexperienced grad students lecturing about how the human mind works. Read more

03 Mar 2008 ⋅ by IndieInkArchive ⋅ in Writing ⋅ 0 Comments ⋅ Tags: adult, adulthood, anniversary, career, college, cube farm, cubicle, Felicia, future, graduation, job, life, living, university, work

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Ain’t Life Grand

I was late for work this morning–as usual–because 8:52 is the new I hate my life. I drove into the parking lot behind Widespread Panic Girl. I have no idea what her actual name is, but she has seven or eight Widespread stickers on her rear windshield so it’s no less fitting but infinitely more complementary than other potential nicknames like Dances With ProActiv or PocaHondas. Read more

25 Feb 2008 ⋅ by IndieInkArchive ⋅ in Writing ⋅ 0 Comments ⋅ Tags: band, career, dump, elevator, job, life, money, music, oddities, poop, shit, Widespread Panic, work, worklife

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