Sometimes it depends on whether the shark decides to eat you or not It is at times a dog-eat-dog world. Of course, growing up I thought it was a doggie dog world. I thought, why yes dogs do rule! Then somewhere in my mid 20s I learned the […]
A curly-haired girl’s troubles with hotels I once saw a man, a curly-haired man, almost miss his flight because he had to check in at the last minute a suitcase filled with his hair products. I stared, laugh, and ran to my seat for I was not going […]
A past that never happened In her mind things were simpler a while back. As she types out her latest missive, she knows that was never the case. We have mythologized the past into something it has never been. A time of no road rage, no lines and low […]
I Don’t Know It could be a void I could slip into nothing An emptiness could be happiness Your false being has destroyed From the beginning you have been fading Out from the blackness comes a light madness Two bits to every side A void is full A […]
At this point we all know about the US recession that hit really hard in 2007, 2008 causing the bottom to fall out of the housing market. Right as that was occuring, we bought a house in one of the most heavily taxed counties in the US. Talk […]
What’s is up with our hippocampus these days? The hippocampus is a region in our brain that ostensibly helps people tell whether an object is near or far. Considering that I walk into walls and chairs all the time, I have a feeling my hippocampus is a little. […]
Willy wonka, gratitude, silly, nostalgia, identity
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ― Napoléon Bonaparte I have got a secret. Well, no. Let me rephrase. I know a secret. I have information that a certain other wishes that I did not have. I not only know a secret, I also […]
Cars in sand like the days of our lives Upon arriving to work she notices that everyone has their head in the sand. A bit like an ostrich but these days a bit like discarded cars that once used to be revving and riding wildly down the highway. […]
There may or may not be doors but we can find our way in Throughout my life there have been many doors that I have had to walk through, at times perhaps crawl through. Some doors have been opened for me. Others, I have had to push my […]