So many words. So many images. Yet, the building stood emptied for years on end. It dared anyone to enter and say a word. No thoughts or feelings could be contained. It served as a vessel for corrupted, yet innocent energy. What more could it be? It was […]
A long time ago. So long ago, that I cannot remember exact details, I watched a comedy skit for a clean up service that stayed in my mind. It percolated. It might have been a Saturday Night Live skit. It was selling a service for when you die. […]
There are many bad feelings to experience in daily life. There are good ones to be sure. Afterall, I’m a sunny curmudgeon. However, there are those bad feelings that erode at your soul. So much so that you feel you need a tetanus shot for your emotional skeleton. […]
This was it! The trip of a lifetime. Beauty. Awe. Tranquility. However, everything was far from tranquil. Her heart was in turmoil and her brain was muddled. Nothing made sense anymore. They had sat for an early dinner with their assigned dinner table mates. It was lovely getting […]
Today I am amused and bemused. Today I am settled and unsettled. Today I am bored and stressed out. The mind is numbed. Yet, emotions running wild and thoughts streaming away on their own. I’m a runaway freight train with no will to stop. I want to hide. […]
The tree knew all her secrets. She would whisper sweet nothings. The tree’s body knew she didn’t want to stay on the carousel. Her secrets were not for the faint of heart. She was a wicked one. She patted it and told the tree Yes, I did it. […]
Secrets are currency. Gossip is currency. Whispers at a watercooler can be currency. People engage in old-school bartering of secrets and gossip. Some people use secrets to solidify relationships or get new relationships started. Secrets are bonding agents. Can be superglue in some instances. And these secrets are […]
Have you ever been told a secret in the workplace? Of course you have. Have you ever been told to not share a secret? Of course you have. Have you ever shared a someone else’s secret. I bet many have. It can be hard to keep things in […]
When the television show Gossip Girl first came out, I watched it religiously. Or so I thought. Or so I had remembered. But it appears, just like Serena’s fake night of debauchery, I mis-remembered actually watching all of Gossip Girl. It turns out that of the original […]
Seventy five lightning strikes. That is all that it took. Red always looked good on her and now it was even more striking. It was time to keep this secret quiet. There was nothing more that could be said. The evening had started well enough with a gentle […]