Tag: life
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The Cape Cod Veteran’s Ball is an event that may or may not have existed. Upon googling now, I cannot find an event or organization that matches what I am about to describe, but it is the story I was told and am going to tell you. Each year, the veterans of Cape Cod would raise money for a different cause. I suppose this already makes no sense because wouldn’t they raise money for veterans? I don’t know. I was four. I was four, very cute, and very, very famous. So famous, that this particular year, the veterans chose ME…
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WordPress offers daily writing prompts which I rarely entertain, but I’ve been in a slump and decided it could be a worthwhile exercise. “What gets better with age?” Yesterday, in attempts at stirring up my own inspirations, I took the daring plunge into my private tumblr where I kept my diary from approximately 2014-2019, the end of high school through college. I thought I’d be able to read it fairly unscathed giving the temporal distance I now have, but this wasn’t the case. The familiar ache of that age swiftly found its home in my chest as I scanned the…