I am standing at the service desk, busy for a change, because the store front is buzzing. There is a lady picking up a parcel to my left. No worries there: my coworker’s got it covered. Another colleague is tapping away at a keyboard to my right, helping a customer she’s got on the phone. … More Weekly Loss | Catching Daylight
When I don’t feel all there mentally, I tend to hide that from my family and friends. And myself. Keen to ignore all unhappiness in my life (and body and brains), I avoid all acknowledgement of any discomfort whatsoever. And I am expert at it! Look at me being good at something! My momma must … More An Overwhelming Loss Of Brain
Assumptions will be the death of me, I swear. Well, those and my dad. As it goes in small places (such as where I live), faces become familiar quickly, and before you know it you’ve become a local celebrity. This woman runs a well-visited liquor store with her husband, who fell sick a few years … More Weekly Loss | Death By Assumption
It is a Monday morning and I am caught in a game of ping pong between my computer and phone screens. *ping* No, I can only do Thursdays reads my client’s so-manieth quite short and totally unlike her text. Sh*t, I have no free Thursdays left until the end of August. Which is a fact … More To Lose Or Not To Lose – That’s The Question
Pride does not pay rent. Which is something I’ve come to understand recently. And because bills do like to get paid eventually, here I am: working a part-time job in a store I’ve never before set foot in. But that’s a story for another time. Because today marks the beginning of a new category: the … More Weekly Loss | The Lazy Loser
The text immediately prompts my mental background music to start playing – loudly. Although I feel like a broken record at times, continuously feeling like a loser, I must admit that Meghan Trainor sounds anything but broken on her latest record. The tunes are pretty catchy and my brains are quick to pick up on … More Don’t I Make It Look Easy, Baby?
Elle Vampa 