Just beat it No one wants to be depleted Your contagious mediocrity is putrefying Your baseless arrogance is stupefying Your extreme pettiness is confining Your false alacrity is mystifying Your careless whisper is clarifying Your exemplary triteness is testifying Your jittery righteousness is unbecoming Your inharmonious sincerity is […]
Resiliency is also hardcoded into their beings. #blog #flashfiction #photography
The little hand vulnerable from birth Gets less and less so The big hand supportive from birth becomes more and more vulnerable Time doesn’t stop Yet we live in time loops Circling back over and over Catching our breath before its gone Trying to fill the sullen dearth […]
It was time to get lucky. She could feel it. She knew she should head to the liquor store and get a scratcher. All signs were pointing to things turning around. The doctor said her mom would recover. Her daughter’s grades had improved markedly. Sometimes things just had […]
She was no Charlie’s Angel. She had always wanted to be. Honestly, the clothes and hair were a bit too retro but the overall flair was cool. Being part of a collective, a female collective was something to dream about. Of course, the local gang girls had […]
Once upon a time she lived in a bubble. Not a warm, fuzzy bubble like a Mayberry town. Once upon a time she lived in a dark, suffocating bubble that seemed like it would burst at any point. The temperature ran hot inside that bubble leaving one’s skin […]
From up above everything looks so small. That is why she goes parachuting every other month. Its an expensive habit and high. Pun intended. Its so cliche to feel alive when tumbling through the air. The uncertainty makes one’s vision clear. She needed a reprieve. She had been […]
She wants to fall deep into the abyss Fall deeply into the dark While the sirens sing away Fade away Fade away The darkness is coming She has longed for it for days The reprieve has been given Fade away Fade away It had all gone amiss Now there […]
Little girl blue Tried and tried to cry Yet no tears fell from her eyes Broken heart and broken ducts Even onions brought forth no tears She was done at midnight She was running on empty She was out of fairy godmothers Little girl blue Tried and tried […]
As a female Hispanic executive I have often faced the dilemmas Sheryl Sandberg discusses in her book Lean In. I have felt the “impostor syndrome” and I have seen women tear each other apart. Then again who hasn’t I mean, rather, who hasn’t seen people just tearing each […]
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