In the beginning, I wrote a Letter from My Kidney during the spring semester of 2022 for my creative non-fiction class. It was originally a humor piece, with my kidney being angry and wanting to be back in my Grandma’s body. My grandma didn’t like it, saying that her kidney is far happier in a young healthy body. My grandpa didn’t appreciate the two swear words (sh*t and screw). Trying to appease them both, I did a rewrite. I took away the swearing, shifted the kidney’s perception of me, and added more heart. I took this new version to my grandma, something that has been routine for me over the decades. The first time she read it, she erupted in laughter, looked at me and said, “Our kidney is right,” with a mischievous smile.
As much as I love this piece, I’ll admit it’s not the most publishable of my work. Full of personal information, inside jokes, and cringy bragging, I only felt comfortable publishing on a currently unknown website. Still, my favorite part is the real self-scolding of treating popcorn as a food group. One of my favorite jokes is that I’m addicted to popcorn, and that I’m x number of days sober. I also tear up a little on how healthy and athletic Grandma was. She was a baton twirler as young as five, we have this amazing collage of photos of her, and an entire trophy case of different awards when she danced competitively. On the Fourth of July, she would take her fire batons out to the yard and twirl. If I could have gone deeper into our relationship, into the immense impact she had on me, I would. Words can’t express how much I valued her.
My grandma has passed away. I’ve been working on so many projects, and that inability to go running to my grandma and present her with my work and my progress is affecting me. Moreso, between the grief and fighting seasonal depression again, I want to just do my grandma the honor of making my first post about her and the gifts she gave me. I want to make this my first reminder. Taking care of me is the best way to remember her.
If you decide to join me on this journey, I will challenge you to find my writing patterns and the influences I’m drawing from. Being able to switch between Creative Non-Fiction and Fiction might make this challenge quite self-evident. However, I wish to grow from that and explore where this takes me.
Release Date: January 10, 2024
I’m excited for this one! You know all about Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, The Little Mermaid, Goldie-locks and the Three Bears. Their stories are timeless, some going back to 10th century. Yet as I was going over some of them, I realized these characters would not make it very far in the modern world. In fact, most of what happens to them sounds like… insanity. Not to brag, but I have a lot of experience with being crazy. Red Riding Hood trying to tell the police a wolf ate her grandmother? They would throw her into a mental institution. Ariel, oh lord Ariel, I don’t even know where to start. These characters, taking on a mixture of madness and myth, are bringing you this eccentric love story to mental health. See you in the new year!
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