I am set adrift, a string of multicoloured Christmas lights tied to the stern of my tiny boat. It’s the rhythmic rocking of alcohol, the blurred vision. I lean my head against the wall and let my…
It’s instinct; fight or flight. He said stay because it would be stronger to stay. It would be worth it to shelve these hurts one after the other on the bookcase in my heart. Stay. Don’t run. I…
If you’re having a bad day, I have the cure. It only gets better with multiple views.
“My mother always used to say that you can’t know when love will show up, it just will when you least expect it to. It sounded so cliché at the time, I mean, ok sure Mom, if you say so.”
She…
In the dream I am sitting on the edge of a pool, sand instead of tile at the bottom, feet dangling in murky water. The pool is in what is and is not a room because it has walls and a door but the…
That’s the thing about loving someone, after a while it just becomes second nature, something you don’t have to necessarily think about except to stop doing. It’s that pair of shoes you reach for…
For the Jaws lover in all of us: the sharky tea-infuser.
This is the best thing I’ve ever seen… tea-infuser wise.
@ Mad Men Party, originally uploaded by birdykin.s.
Antilamentation
Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read
to the end just to find out who killed the cook.
Not the…
We pick our way through the stands, searching for the perfect view of the arena. There aren’t many people here so we settle ourselves a couple of rows from the top and laugh loudly together. It…
