I’m scared to look To see deep inside Afraid of the cracks I might find Afraid of the pain that will rise I’m afraid to taste To bite off more than there is Afraid everything will crumble Afraid everything will gnash I’m afraid to feel To touch the […]
Last week before I headed out to the airport, I spent three hours in the morning cleaning up my apartment. At one point I stopped shaking my head at myself wondering why I was taking so much time to clean an apartment that would be empty […]
I started drinking coffee late in life. Well, late for a Puerto Rican that is. I was making coffee for my mom was I was seven. Yet, somehow my seven year old son can’t even conceive of doing such a thing for me. But I digress. Yes, […]
I am curious about frenemies. Always have been, especially since I watched a Sex and the City episode (season 3, episode 16) where Carrie introduced us to her frenemy. By the time one is 35, I believe one will have had at least one frenemy. They […]
It’s my birthday and I will not cry because I do not want to. I want to be happy and stay happy. It’s my birthday and I have given myself the day off. Well, rather, I have allowed myself to work from home so that I […]
I have a nice jewelry collection. All of the expensive nice pieces not bought by me. And that’s fine by me. I have a nice art collection that was started off by someone else. I now buy my own pieces- often more in the absurdist art […]
I’ve got nothing. My mind is a blank My eyes don’t comprehend But the chair is divine Can you take me to st louis ? Where the arch gleams on a cold, cold night and the cocktails warm the hands You got to bide some time To buy […]
My life has been a bit off the last year. Three jobs. Three cities. Multiple states in which I lived. I left a very familiar group of people behind in order to venture forth. I needed to explore new “lands”, sort of speak. As such, I […]
A few weeks back I was one of the first to board my flight and I sat there watching everyone get on. My row-mate made a few jokes and I nodded enough to feign interest. At one point, I saw a young woman with two other […]
Did you know that taxi cabs have a vomiting service fee. More often than not, the fee is $50? This is now pretty standard. Every single cab I took in Chicago recently had the vomit service fee prominently displayed. One of my Uber drivers was telling […]