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 […]
Last night I kept dreaming of the number 43. It kept going on and on in my mind. The 43 boomed and glared. It was vivid. Yet, that was one of my least vivid dreams. Night after night I’ve been having vivid dreams. Wild dreams, bordering on lucid. […]
Have you seen the movie Holes? It’s funny. If you are in the right mood. But there are many life lessons in it that can apply to this day and age. There’s one scene and one line that stays in everyone’s head. The little girl tells her grandpa […]
Sometimes I feel there’s fire everywhere. Inside my brain and soul. On the streets. Coming out of people’s mouths. There’s a firestorm brewing. There’s a firestorm that has scorched the earth. There’s fury. Fiery spirit. It’s all burning. Let all it burn, I say.
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 […]
This year has been an exercise in turning the sound down. Ignoring the noise. This much-needed exercise for me has been at the personal, professional, and societal level. Earlier this year, a dear friend tried to calm me down by telling me to ignore a particular person who […]
