Perhaps I am extremely tired. No, I am extremely tired. There is no perhaps to it. I am working on a book chapter that is due in two weeks and I barely have an outline together. I am a very fast writer, however. But there just may not […]
She arrived home tired, hungry and angry with the world. But there was her little boy noting that he had prepared a special gift for her. How could a mother not be ecstatic at such a welcome at the end of the day. He grabbed her hand and […]
During her flight she entertained herself with binge-watching. And what a glorious binge it was. Her head was filled with flights of fancy and kick-boxing moves. Her body wanted to move and soar wildly. She checked into her hotel and stared out the window fingering the moves […]
The abandoned buildings throughout their neighborhood were sketchy with rats, possibly raccoons and crazed drug-addled people milling within them. Yet their claustrophobic heatless thin-walled apartments were no safer. They would go down the stairs carefully to not draw attention to themselves. Not that anyone was looking […]
This year the word of the year was an emoji and apparently cool things are now referred to as being “on fleek“. According to some 2015 retrospective lists “hella” is a popular term and believe me I hear it every day in my office. But I […]
Gratitude The year of 2015 has been one of tremendous change for me. Not just one major change, but multitudes of changes. I left my beloved New York for San Francisco. Well, yes and no. I did move out to San Francisco but I was not necessarily […]
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 put her hands together. She had not prayed in ages. Perhaps the last time she prayed was when she last needed something really badly. Wasn’t that always the case? She didn’t know who she was praying to. She just knew she needed divine intervention. She could not […]
Trains, planes and automobiles. Plenty of ways to escape. As she boarded the bus, she looked at the cast of characters. She imagined that amongst them was a man from another planet. A monster, per chance. Just like in the movie “Men in Black.” She knew that those […]
