My sad Haiku (rather tanka): Parasite ate my summer
My sad Haiku (rather tanka): Parasite ate my summer One day it was over Parasite ate my summer Now the leaves turn red Yet, the sunlight skipped my skin Parasite burrowed my life
Let the bubbles take it all away: No more rebel yells
Let the bubbles take it all away: No more rebel yells It seemed like a lost cause But the sun has risen And we are startled at how mightily it shines To roar back To pull from behind To give it one’s all Triteness Ennui Deja vu Let […]
The Superstitions attached with Putting the Silverware Away
The Superstitions attached with Putting the Silverware Away Daily Prompt: Putting the Dishes Away I am a very messy person. Messes follow me at work, at home and even on the subway. I just leave everything lying about. I take great pride in being messy. There is research […]
Would you willingly live in a haunted house?
My mom 100% unabashedly believed in ghosts. I thus grew up with ghosts in my corner, or so that is where I placed them. It may be that nobody outs baby in the corner, but ghosts they readily belong therein. My son, until about the age of four, […]
Goofing Around in Suds and Snow When School is Cancelled in New York
Goofing Around in Suds and Snow When School is Cancelled in New York Daily Prompt: Flattery through Copies At 6am I got the school phone call alerting me to the fact that my son’s school was closed for the day. Yah! We get a day off. Boo! We […]
Call Me: Wait, Do We Still Do That? Text Me Instead
I was up late the other night tossing and turning ruminating wondering about whether I had made the right judgment call on a particular decision earlier that day. I was flipping the channel and cable television was showing the movie by Joel Schumacher, starring Colin Farrell, called Phone […]
Dreaming of cherryheads for breakfast and placing a cherry branch to guard my front door
No, I am not dreaming of Cherry Garcia ice cream. No, I’m not dreaming of a deadhead concert even though I did attend an elite preppy boarding school. Many are currently dreaming of a white Christmas. I, on the other hand, am dreaming of Cherryheads. Not lemon heads, […]
It’s Friday the 13th Again: Beware of Office Holiday Parties But Bless The Spider
It is Friday the 13th. Again. It has occurred twice in 2013. Last year, in 2012, it occurred three times. Interestingly, in 2014, it will only occur once. Whew! But then in 2015, we will be faced with that day three times. I don’t know about you all, […]
Bedtime story: Apparitions in my stairwell, oh what a ghost-month morning
Went to sleep late last night, holding on tightly to my IPAD. Not unlike many other Americans and the technology-obsessed. Dreamt wild dreams of working underground battling bats and snakes; and those were just my co-workers. Woke up with frizzy curls and a fuzz head. Waddled over to […]
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