BlogHer Voice of the Week: kdiddy.org

There's nothing like a temper tantrum and a good cry to help a woman tesseract across space and time. In The yellow house across the street, kdiddy opens as her five-year old self, giving her mother hell on a hot August evening. The issue at hand? Having to take a bath.

"My mom stomped to the bathroom, muttering, and angrily turned on the bath. I flung myself onto my bed with all of the angst that I could muster in my 5-year-old self and cried because it, whatever injustice I was suffering at the time, was simply not fair."

Flash-forward: There's still a yellow house across the street but kdiddy is now the mother in residence, and the issues are a little thornier -- tough economy, tougher job market and just a few dollars between paydates. It's enough to make a pasta dinner insurmountable:

"I angrily stabbed at the lumpy mixture with my wooden spoon and for a second entertained the thought of dramatically tossing the whole mess into the street and stomping it into the ground. I can’t make more money and my husband can’t even get a job and I think we’re giving up and now I can’t even make fucking macaroni and cheese?

"This is just not fair. It’s not fair, dammit.

"I stomped into the living room and dramatically flung myself into the big, blue, faux-leather, hand-me-down recliner with all of the angst that I could muster in my 31-year-old self. “Dinner’s fucking ruined,” I spat, not really looking at my husband from his spot on our creaky hand-me-down couch that regularly shit grease and sawdust and odd nuts and bolts onto our hand-me-down rug."

Re-read that last sentence if you will. When's the last time you read anything that original about a piece of furniture? That image is not the only unique prose you'll find in this post, where kdiddy revisits her five-year-old temper-tantrum, has herself a good cry, then steps up and completes the day. All in the light of a yellow house across the street.

For her raw, real voice and lovely way with words, kdiddy is our BlogHer Voice of the Week. Thanks for your post.

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Lisa

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