My Rare Disease Part 6: Pride
Back to Part 5: Dignity ~ We developed a routine. After talking to the doctor each morning, my mother called my employers to let them know that I n
My Rare Disease Part 7: Tests
Back to Part 6: Pride ~ At night, the nurses took blood samples to monitor my condition. They came in every couple of hours, beginning at 11:00 p.m
My Rare Disease Part 5: Dignity
Back to Part 4: Specter ~ My mother would later tell me that she’d seen in my eyes a look she had only seen twice before in her life—once in my
My Rare Disease Part 4: Specter
Back to Part 3: Stomach Virus ~ The next couple of days were a blur. I didn’t get any better. I lost more energy and more weight than I imagined
My Rare Disease Part 3: Stomach Virus
Back to Part 2: A History of Anxiety ~ On Christmas day after I moved back to Pennsylvania, I was still under the weather and unable to eat much of
My Rare Disease Part 2: A History of Anxiety
Back to Part 1: Sick ~ It started again, one week before Christmas. At first I wasn’t so worried about shedding a couple of pounds since I’d ga
My Rare Disease Part 1: Sick
My Rare Disease ~ How do you write about being sick? What can you possibly say in an effort to share and educate without annihilating every sub-at
Hand me downs
I must have been about sixteen when my mother happened upon The Carrot Cake recipe. I have no idea where the recipe came from—probably one of the â€
The Manuscript
You start by creating a few words and then a few sentences and then it starts to grow and you nurture it and try your best to make it the best it can
Why She Cries
My dog won’t stop whining. She walks up to me and looks directly at my face with her wide, brown, agitated eyes and if I don’t immediately take
Tara Caimi is an independent writer and editor with a BA in journalism and an MFA in creative writing. Her essays, stories, and articles have appeared in journals and magazines including the Writer’s Chronicle, The MacGuffin, Fire & Knives, Outside In Literary and Travel Magazine, Pithead Chapel, and Oh Comely magazine.
