Love on Wheelz

Sometimes I feel like my life is a montage of awkward moments. From being asked to get up to not being understood, it seems as if I’m a magnet for uncomfortable situations. This is the story of another one of these events. Me and my new caregiver, Amber, were shopping at our neighborhood Costco shopping [...]

Me and my friend Chris, over at Griffin Writes, had a conversation a few months ago about life and why we even bother with it sometimes. What keeps us from giving up when things get hard and it all seems hopeless. Why we even bother to get up in the morning and grind out another [...]

When I was in high school, I had a nurse, and my brother had an assistant. Because they worked together, they got to know each other pretty well. They eventually started dating each other. They never hid it from my parents and they didn’t mind. So I always saw them being affectionate towards each other, [...]

It’s storming here in San Diego. We are not used to rain here in SoCal. much less a storm with tornado warnings. Needless to say, everybody is freaking the fuck out. FundieNurse took the opportunity to show off her meteorological skills. She came in with the newspaper in her hand and showed me a picture [...]

“Move, you’re in the way.” My dad yelled at me. He was getting my brother ready to go out. I moved, out of the way and into the hallway. He always takes so long to ge ready, my brother does. He’s like me at that age, only much worse. I could deal with the physical [...]

I was pacing frantically in room. Well, my room isn’t big enoughto pace in, so I was really just going in circles. She was coming over for the first time in a week and this was the night. I remembered the hurt and disappointment, and I didn’t want to feel like that ever again. In [...]

“I’m gonna tell her.” “You should.” Nick said as he visually molested his vanilla ice cream cone. “I will. You think she’ll like me back?” “I don’t know.” he said as he bit off the top of his ice cream, “She seems very flirty, but that maybe that’s just how she is.” “Oh.” I said, [...]

“You want to give her the doll?” asked Nick. “It’s not a doll, it’s an action figure.” “It’s Fry from futurama dancing in a disco costume.” “Action figure.” “Well, you bought it for her two weeks ago. Are you gonna give it to her tonight or wait ’til you make sure she won’t keep flaking [...]

She was supposed to come Friday. I got all dressed up and got my dad to get me on my chair. I planned to tell her I liked her. I’d never told any girl I liked her, why would I ever do that? I could get rejected. Hell, I probably would get rejected. And why [...]