Friends, really good friends, can be family. They can be your chosen family. They can prop you up. They can be your “there”. I’m lucky to have some good friends. I have friends that are non-judgmental and can try to steer me before I go down the wong […]
I will admit that my refrigerator is often very empty. Even when I was pregnant I barely kept anything in my refrigerator because I had morning sickness through the eighth month. I couldn’t hold anything down in my body so it made no sense to keep a well-stocked […]
I have lived in a lot of places. That’s an understatement. I am now in my second apartment in the same building I moved in exactly a year ago. It’s been about a month that I have lived in my current apartment. In the past, I was very […]
I have always felt that the Monday blahs weren’t real. A few hit songs about how Mondays are depressing stayed within the public consciousness and took root. Thus, many people hate Mondays. And, yes Sundays and Mondays are supposedly the days of the week people for the most […]
She stood to the side playing with the shadows. They were searching high and low for her but she managed to keep ahead. Yet, she knew the darkness would take over. She felt herself becoming more and more bitter. Her happy place rotting with sour apples. She would […]
There is a lot going on in the world right now. And, that is a rather trite understatement. There’s too much going on in the world and in our heads. It’s one battle after another. One movement forward, on movement backwards. It’s all topsy turvy. Some people take […]
She really wished she had access to fairy dust that she could sprinkle everywhere making people bend to her wishes. Well, and making people happy as well. She could easily dream of skipping around the neighborhood sprinkling good will. Instead, she was trapped in this bathroom sipping on […]
I am a very messy person. I try to neaten up every week and within minutes, I clutter things up again. I like a good mess. Not a bad mess, mind you. Sometimes, the mess is just too messy and you startle yourself into some kind of cleaning […]
I now know how it tastes I now know I can I now know patience I now know I’ve got the words I now know my empathy I now know to not believe in sharks I now know there are heights I now know blood runs through the […]
Today, is the long-awaited (perhaps dreaded) election day in the United States. And, I am going to share a random story. Seemingly so. I tend to digress much a story about spackle is just right for today. Yes, spackle. That goey thing you use to fill up holes […]
