Julie G’s Reviews > In the Flesh > Status Update

Elation and depression, they can both burn you up in a flame of feeling.

Maybe sometimes you have to open your mind to other possibilities outside yourself.

Confession: When you came for the children last Sunday, I looked through the window. When I saw you cutting across 108th just like old times, I wanted to drop a water bomb on your head. On Valentine's Day, I wanted to send you a dripping calf's heart.
What do you want me to do with all that junk you've left here? This isn't a warehouse.

"If you go, don't ever come back!" I hissed, but he was already down the hallway, hustling off to his new life, and the urgency of his footsteps broke my heart."

I had a dog when I was a child. When it was a few years old, I realized with horror I had established an irrevocable relationship with it which could only end in death.

I looked at Howard, who was asleep, and I could see his eyes moving under those thin lids as he followed his dreams.

If she was outspoken sometimes, it was because she believed it was in the service of Truth.

Now I was delirious with domesticity. I was like Sherry's mother, my soul sparkling with silver polish, my pride stiffened with laundry starch. Everything here spoke of stability and trust.

Reducing us to girlish dependence, Dr. Marvin Kramer called us by our first names. We called him Dr. Kramer.