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Surviving My Daughter's Surgery

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There's this scene in Pay it Forward when Helen Hunt's character realizes that her son has died on the operating room table. Her knees buckle, the roots of her giving out, and she is lost inside herself as skin meets with tile. This fate could have easily been Erika's on Tuesday when her daughter went in for surgery.  Read more >

Why I Write

My husband asked me yesterday: "What is the goal for your writing?  What do you want readers to experience when reading your words?"  I thought about it for a moment.  It wasn't like I haven't thought about it before but it's something that's personal and hard to verbalize.  But I did so anyways.  I told him: "I want people to feel loved."Here's a story I wrote for The Red Dress Club that hopefully echoes this sentiment. Abner  Read more >

Losing My Religion

I used to believe that Catholicism was the one true religion.  No ifs, ands or buts.  I used to practice a faith that was ingrained within four secular walls and detailed, literally, by the Book.  I thought everyone else was wrong, that I was right, and that there was no room in Heaven for those whose thinking didn’t sync with mine.  Read more >

Depression: My Own Worst Enemy

It sneaked back in today, tickled my neck and when I went to itch the little bugger, the feeling clipped my fingers like a pair of shears: depression.  Read more >

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My personal blog that humorously chronicles my life as a writer, mother and struggling vegan.
Features my award winning fiction and and poetry.

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Full Name
Ericka Clay
Member Since
January 2010
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Profession: 
Writer
Location: 
Corpus Christi, TX
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writer, mother, wife, reader, author

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