Oleander Ponders

Joined February 2021

3 stories

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MA in English and Writing

BS in Social Work

Former Managing Editor of the Twisted Vine Literary and Fine Arts Journal

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How I Finally Got My S*** Sort-of Together in Spite of my ADHD, Anxiety Disorder, and PTSD
By all accounts, I should be organized: I am a 50 year old woman. I raised four children. I earned an advanced degree.
By Oleander Ponders5 years ago in Psyche
In the Bag
We were drinking. We took the kids out to eat, a little hole-in-the-wall Mexican place that had cheap beer on tap and two-for-a dollar tacos. The kids loved it because the waiters wore ponchos and fake mustaches and talked in silly fake accents, and they got coloring sheets with little boxes of crayons. Shaun loved it because there were about a dozen TVs, all broadcasting a different football game. I loved it because it was dark and the kids got their coloring pages and Shaun was watching his sports and they all just left me alone to my thoughts for a while. But we were together…you know, family time.
By Oleander Ponders5 years ago in Families
Legacy
It was Spring. Not the lush, fragrant, hedonistic “Spring!” that arrives in May, but the cold, thin, mud-brown-and-pale-green haze that hinted that the transition from Winter to Summer was on the horizon.
By Oleander Ponders5 years ago in Humans