This week’s weekly writing challenge is about silence. When I think of silence, I think about regret. When I was a kid, I was painfully shy. I remember that when I was in middle school, the other kids in my class thought that I lacked the ability to speak. Seriously. This is not the joke. … Continue reading
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Shyness: When your brain becomes a sea of mush and white noise
Underneath the futon, where I slept when I was home (my brother converted my old bedroom into his office – cutting a hole in the wall where our closets aligned… My mom has a lot of patience), I found a big plastic bin filled with my old school books, journals, postcards, and a little film … Continue reading