Stranger in a strange land

Have you ever felt like a stranger in your own home? Like everything you said, did, and thought, just didn’t quite fit with the program? Like you were in the way, underfoot, constantly? Your sense of humor too dark, your patience too thin, your voice too sharp, your nerves too frazzled? As if you could […]

Because hell is for children

When I was in high school, Pat Benatar had the hit song. We used to sing it, with relish, because we were angst-ridden teenagers that thought for some reason the world owed us something, that we were somehow special in our feeling messed up. We imagined we were hurt somehow. They cry in the dark, […]