It feels weird when a friendship just . . . dies off. No warning, no goodbye, no sense of walking off the edge of a cliff into the abyss of silence where there was once warm laughter and inside jokes and cold tears and deepest secrets revealed in the darkest hours of the night. But... Continue Reading →
An Ode to the Sub Shop in the Early Morning Sunlight
This is a space only few know. The space behind the counter at my job in a sub shop, where the early morning sunlight filters through the front windows, illuminating the front lobby and line. The lobby which will be full with the lunch crowd in a few hours. The line that will have fresh... Continue Reading →
Why Can’t I Tell You?
Here's what you hear when I tell you I'm moving this weekend: "She's packing up and going home." What you don't hear, though, are these words revolving around my head like silent wolves stalking wounded prey: "She's leaving everything she knows. She's going through a change and a difficult transition because she can't tell up... Continue Reading →
Who I Am
I open my eyes in darkness--a brand new day, beckoned in by the whirls of my iPad alarm and welcomed by the steadfast, confident swinging from the warm covers to the cool tendrils of the turquoise shag rug below. Mornings spent in peace and tranquility only felt under the careful watch of the moon--this is... Continue Reading →
Friends (What They Don’t Tell You in High School)
What they never tell you in high school is this: the friends you find here will not always be found. Some will be lost along the way-- some among the walkways of school, some after you walk out the doors for the last time, some after you leave a college campus, and some after a... Continue Reading →
Dealing with Emotions
I felt it more this week-the rising tide of anger washing over tired bones and a weary soul that had stuffed it down, deep into the depths of the sea of emotions for too long. I could feel it as my usual sarcastic barbs with co-workers had more of a sting than I intended. Could... Continue Reading →
The Pearl
They don't teach it in schools anymore--even if they ever did. The way humans settle, sink into a conversation like a pebble into a lake after it's skipped the glassy surface several times, reaching new depths of that lake, new depths of the people who are conversing together. And out from amid the murky waters... Continue Reading →
Lessons from a Little Black Puppy–Part Two
It really astounds me how loyal dogs are. How we can usher them into a crate for hours while we go to work or go have fun, and they'll still be there, waiting. Wagging their tails as we enter through the door once again, smiling as we shower them with pets and love and kisses... Continue Reading →
Lessons from a Little Black Puppy–Part One
I've always had the innate sense that motherhood is hard. Maybe it was seeing how hard my own mother worked to take care of my little brother and me. Maybe it was playing mother hen to thirty-something band kids as a drum major back in high school. Maybe it was my own fears of one... Continue Reading →
Dawn to Dusk
(a response piece to Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay") My day was starting whenever the famous line fluttered around my head: "dawn goes down to day / nothing gold can stay." And in the flash of an instant, I realized this valuable lesson: day will always give to dusk, and dusk will always give... Continue Reading →
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