My nerves are as tight as a bow string….I swear I’m teetering on the brink of a breakdown…let the time go by quickly but not so quickly that I lose my way…I lay here listening to the damn sounds of my life…listening as the car crunched down the driveway. I lay here perfectly still, waiting, [...]

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The screams coming from Linus nearly gave me heart failure. I dropped my cup and ran.
She just keeps screaming, Mommy! Mommy!
As I ran through the kitchen, I saw him holding Linus down in the shower, her little arms and legs kicking and flailing as the water overwhelmed her, almost drowning her. It all happened [...]

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So now, on top of everything else we had to worry about, we now faced the prospect of going to hell. We were already half the way there for reading that dirty book Wally had given us, the previous summer. We repented that one sincerely and we hoped that it had bought us a few [...]

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