Years and years ago- when he was about eight years old, the second born in my family got mad at me for taking away his Nintendo.
To show me how evil I was and how I had destroyed his life- he drew a picture of a cemetery and wrote his name on every single tombstone. I was impressed because there were a couple of dozen of those things and they were all different styles. It was obvious the kid had put a lot of work into that picture.
In fact I know exactly how much work he put into it because he drew it on the while sitting in the kitchen floor when I was making dinner and I was stepping over his emotionally distraught form every time I turned around.
That aside the entire picture was cool, it was detailed there were twisted black trees, zombies, coffins and a full Moon with teeth.
There may have been a Nintendo hanging from its mouth.
Oh and it had the same color hair as me.
It was also wearing a witch’s hat.
Anyway.
I liked it so much I put it in a frame and showed it too my friends.
One day my kid came home from school and caught me showing off his artwork.
He pulled the framed picture out of my hand, stomped his little foot and said, ” I hate you. AND you’re stupid.”
Until today I thought that little picture was the funniest slapdown any kid had ever put on paper and shoved under a parent’s bedroom door- and then I found this on the interwebs:
I take my writing seriously.
I do not take my Facebook seriously.
To let you know, I started my Facebook page for fun, its full of shiny objects distractions if you will.
I have since learned that is NOT how other people see their Facebook.
People have verbal/written brawls on that site.
On a personal level nothing has gotten my slapped down faster and harder…
then sharing a link on my Facebook page about news articles, or links that I found interesting.
I didn’t say you have to read this, you have to see this my way. I just found something I wanted to share and got my freaking head ripped off and my guts nailed to the ceiling.
Until my husband decided to run for office I posted here every single day and though I got the ” you suck as a writer and your opinions are dumb and David Tennant is gay you know ” by and large those comments came from strangers.
When they start coming from people you know?
I think that Facebook is not such a fun place anymore.
Maybe I should take that idea much more seriously.
Maybe I should go back to being a real writer here and not a real Facebooker.
Irregular Bones 
