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15 Questions To Get To Know Me

This is a response to Kyle L.’s invitation to answer 15 questions that allow us to understand each other more deeply than our short…

Jun 16

Photo of a window onto a room with a desk. Neon sign in window reads “What is your story?”

Jun 16

Virginia Wood

Everybody Has To Die Of Something, Sometime

This was from an exercise in a journal workbook for people who are sick. It’s called an AlphaPoem, and this is the one I wrote back in 2008…

5d ago

5d ago

Virginia Wood

Oh Hell NAW, Dog!

Or, We Don’t Need No Ten Commandments

Jul 2

Oh Hell NAW, Dog!

Jul 2

Virginia Wood

Wood’s Rules came up in another story the other day, and so I thought I’d share the whole list.

About Wood’s Rules

Jul 1

Wood’s Rules came up in another story the other day, and so I thought I’d share the whole list.

Jul 1

Virginia Wood

Honesty

What’s non-negotiable in a relationship with you?

Jun 29

Jun 29

Virginia Wood

The Internship From Hell

TL;DR: Don’t intern at a state psychiatric hospital.

Jun 29

Jun 29

Virginia Wood

The Skeptic: Part Deux

A lot of somethings, I hope. Everything, even. I mean, does anybody believe anything that everyone does?? I mean, we’re talking about a…

Jun 28

closeup photo showing portion of a globe with North America and the Atlantic Ocean

Jun 28

Virginia Wood

Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?

— With thanx and a tip o’ the hat to the Loving Spoonful (album Do You Believe in Magic)

Jun 27

Color photo of a brown and white guinea pig and a black and white one chowing down on lettuce and cherry tomatoes from the author’s own hand-thrown ironstone wedding china.

Jun 27

Virginia Wood

Our wedding was a circus, but it was still hands down the happiest day of my life.

When my mother told me she would not attend if Jan was coming, I called her bluff. I said "OK. I'm sorry to hear that. We will miss you" or…

Jun 27

Jun 27

Virginia Wood

But I Don’t WANT To Grow Up!

I gaze into this child’s eyes and talk to her sometimes. Her life was far from terrible but it wasn’t ideal either so I tell her that it…

Jun 26

Oil portrait of a plump little blonde, blue-eyed white child in a frilly blue dress.

Jun 26

Virginia Wood

Virginia Wood

she/her

Retired clinical psychologist and part-time college instructor. I've made it to old age relatively unscathed -- maybe I can give you some tips. Sweary.

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