Susan Wiesinger
Journalism prof at Cal State, Chico. Into journalism, info technologies, running, family and music. Not necessarily in that order. Go slow – life in progress.
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…ant to stop crying. I want to stand proud and be brave. But also, I don’t want to have to be brave. Why should I have to be brave? Openly loving someone or liking someone or even just being attracted to someone shouldn’t have to be a brave thing. It’s effortless. I like a girl right now and it feels like one of the most effortless, easy things …
ped beignets and …r membranes are porous; the terrors and the sadness around you can enter your bloodstream directly. You are trying to be a good parent, but there you are, defenseless, in a vast sea of human beings, huddled in their desperate gaggles, squabbling, regretful, sweating profusely, scarfing Mickey Mouse–shaped beignets and cups of frozen lemonade and hot dogs bathed in oily chili, all of them simultaneously beating back that inevitable feeling of melancholy that comes from being at The Happiest Place on Earth, and discovering that they’re deeply, inescapably unhappy.