Posts from November 2010

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The Girl Who Trained Horses

by Rebecca

(This is an imported post from my old blog: Oct 6, 2010) When I was 8 years old, I met a girl who became an inspiration, and has remained so throughout my life, though it’s only been the last several years that I’ve come to realize this. By that time, my family had moved out of the […]

Mothers just aren’t

by Rebecca

(This is an imported post from my old blog: Oct 8, 2010.)   I was 16 when I found out that the woman who’d raised me didn’t consider me her own daughter. I think I’d always known. It’s an instinctive thing. An inherent thing. Something you know on some level, a visceral level, that you […]

Play that music

by Rebecca

(This is an imported post from my old blog Nov. 6, 2010.) I was 33 when I first dj’d “professionally”. As in, got a paying gig playing music. Prior to that, I’d always wanted to play music. I’d always wanted to be a dj. To play music to people who would listen to what I […]

Absolution of self

by Rebecca

I saw my ex today. I haven’t seen her in a year and a half. Not once. My friends have. I’ve received reported sightings. My queries have been monosyllabic at best. I’m not terribly interested. I don’t really want to know where she was seen, what she was doing, what she looks like. It accomplishes […]