Category: My Truman Show

  • My Truman Show Part III

    iii. Multitudes August 2023  “Mom I’m going to tell you something and I need you not to freak the fuck out.” Cold rush of panic punches hard in my gut and chest.   We’re driving through the woods, leaving the camp that my (now adult) child has been at for the past five days. It’s a…

  • My Truman Show Part II

    ii. Rainbows May 2021 Lest you begin to think that the only interrobang moment is a negative one, I’d like to share a true “is this really real or I am being punk’d and where are the cameras?!” experience I had at work. I have the good fortune to be a teacher in an elementary…

  • My Truman Show Part I

    i. Titty Troubles November 2020 Bad mammogram. One of the scariest phrases I know. My maternal grandmother, who I look like so much it’s uncanny, had breast cancer. I have always assumed that because we are so alike genetically, it is a foregone conclusion that I will get it one day.I’d had a follow up…