I am so amazed that I'm not sure if I'll be able to bend this language to fit my purpose ( Read more... )

why don't you wrap my heart up in my pj's-- make it a package deal. but please keep my words and my music. maybe they were all I could give you to bring you any kind of happiness.

the down swings are hard, but I have so much to smile about. so I will and I'll find my way with or without companions.

I really do love his laugh, though.

I dyed my roots, cleaned the front of my car and watched exactly half of a movie (Coffee and Cigarettes-- 5.5 of 11 ( Read more... )

silent, impassive, unreceptive to my smile and my words and my eyes when we met (were still happy and hopeful) which must have changed when his only responses were quiet courtesies and
maybe notwhich is so unfair ( Read more... )

"I've decided to let you have your silences ( Read more... )

They all ask the same things. They ask if I'm homesick, they ask if I'm happy, they ask how it happened that Austin was the city I chose to run to for space of all things ( Read more... )

I'm not even going to attempt to give a full account of these last five days ( Read more... )

every roadtrip is a different experience. even if I travel the same route every time, I'm always at a different starting place and I always arrive at a brand new destination ( Read more... )

downs and ups, then ( Read more... )

Things were so quiet when he left this morning, quiet and unresolved, even with the music that he left on for me. All I had was his world around me without him in it and two empty wine glasses-- vestiges of a failed confrontationI never choose the moments, they just find me when my voice is ready to be heard ( Read more... )