Thanksgiving?
It’s the holiday season. My time to shine. The cold makes me happy. The snow makes me smile…then…”family.” I put family in quotes because this year, wow, the people who married into the family really knocked it out...
American Dummy
I’m prepared to show my ignorance I never really knew anything about Israel and Palestine. I don’t know if it was that I didn’t care or what, because their rift is far from new. The first thing I saw was Hamas...
Thoughts and Hairs
I went on a trip… I cried one tear at therapy… I miss my best friend in Wichita… I’m reminded of old hurts… I’ve paid for new mistakes… Don’t tell anybody anything, it’ll just make you sad… My one plant finally...
Ghosted
I was lucky enough to meet my husband in college, long before technology and dating apps and such. I say this because I’ve luckily never been “ghosted” by love. Now I’m not sure what is worse, ghosted by a date or...
Yes it’s the Title of a Bon Ivar Song
Skinny Love Love, so dangerous an idea I float on it I wrote on it I dote on it Romantic in my head Sugar in my bed Making my skin red As I toss and turn If you stayed the night I’d make it so sweet Heart skip a...
Back Off Jesus
April sucked. I spent half of it with a kidney stone, surgery, then over two weeks with two stents. Oh and they found a tumor. The nice, rare kind. They took it out, I’m fine, everything’s fine. I watched Rings of...
The Literal Corporate Ladder
My cousin died last week. I tried to look at him in the casket, but I freaked out. Or chickened out, I’m not sure which. He was only 30. I put my wall up so as to not cry. All I remember from my brief look was that...