At 12:30 I’m searching desperately for my keys. I look in the refrigerator, my laundry hamper, inside candle holders; they are hiding in the paisley of the kitchen table cloth. I grab them and run on the door to meet my father for lunch down the street ( Read more... )

Granted, I'm a little slow on the uptake. but beyonce put out her fourth album ("4"... no comment on that one), which included the top single "run the world (girls ( Read more... )

grandparents. cramped
like haiku. he cradles her
ashes in a box.

I wake up during a storm, stretch like a cat, read on my side, feel the new muscle growing in my stomach, cradle my belly with a wide hand, a book in the other. Running reminds me how much our bodies really are temples. We file them down, we build them up, we pound on them with hammers, we cover them in silk and gold or dirt and we live in them for ( Read more... )

that moment when you look at a picture, a letter, or that person's face, and you no longer recognize an old lover. what a terrifying moment. our hearts change, peel back like onions. layers that were so real, so pure, so heartwrenching, are peeled and discarded. the heart pinkens, as if scrubbed with new memory ( Read more... )

I get back from work-- drive with the windows down, home-- and take a shower, shave my armpits anticipating spring. put on the white dress, the cowboy boots annie bought me from a thrift store in Northampton, my mother's jean jacket, let my hair down curled and reddened in the light. Put four books in my bag. I am going to the beach with cheese and ( Read more... )

couples. they're everywhere. they're in love for a moment or a day or in their old age. couples and puppies. couples and babies. couples and icecream cones. I do not feel bad about couples. I try to celebrate them ( Read more... )

"Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we ( Read more... )

I am wearing my high school prom dress. scarlet letter red to my ankles. mesh. strapless. simple. it zips to the middle of my back and stops there. ten years later my chest is the one major change ( Read more... )

I burst out of bed this morning at 6:30 dreaming I was late for work. I ended up being ten minutes early after running through my parents house, finding underwear and a clean shirt, pants I had forgotten were in the wash, and eating peanut butter haphazardly ( Read more... )