[vintage UtR] 21 Things I Wish I Could Tell My TwentySomething Self

I'm supposed to be grading papers but I can't stop thinking about my writing projects [Breathing Lessons especially]...and my workout (which I'm about to miss if I don't finish my work and go to bed). But, yeah, Breathing Lessons...

Wounds & Debris

1. I'm in the fourth or fifth grade.  In our small town, in the 80s, this makes me old enough to walk downtown without adult supervision.  Which is what me, my twin, and our sister Debbie are doing. A man in a red car drives slowly following us trying to lure us into his vehicle.  [...]

PTSD [#1]

Post Traumatic Sexualization Syndrome - a type of anxiety; typically brought on by the sexualization of the female body in its formative years and/or in such a consistent sequence that the anxiety presents in or even as her realized sexuality and sexual experience Post Traumatic Sexualization Disorder - disorder in which one's anxiety surrounding sexuality is [...]