The damned ( Read more... )

I have been watching the show Mad Men, I'm into the first season about five episodes.  The title is slightly deceiving I think, as far as I can tell this show is actually about women. The writing is good, the characters, and caricatures, both male and female, are easy to identify, and to identify with both personally and as models for others I meet ( Read more... )

to walk in a door that does not belong to me ( Read more... )

It's just that I was wondering ( Read more... )

If I were to paint 'marriage' it would be two parallel lines in Japanese brushwork  from ceiling to floor on a huge white-gesso-ed  canvas.  Not white because life is an empty space to be traversed together, nor because it is only the marriage that should be focussed on, but because it would be impossible to paint the terrain emotional, physical, ( Read more... )

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you started but did not finish.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike-through the books you hated.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. ( Read more... )

Where do you go from here he asked, what's your next move. And I almost laughed. I don't think that way. I'm ambitious sure but derailed, I don't think that way. I think, I might be famous. I think I might move out to the country and ride horses. I think I might give satisfaction a chance ( Read more... )

On call
I cull
To wait by the phone at all
so dull
Chaff chafes
with whetted blades
in blue waves
Staid and hasped
Held fast by love
Collected in his calm
With rough cut palms
Hoof and heel
and tiger balm.

Your name pulls
as it drowns and surfaces
into nothing and out
to refrain
more oft than not
from throwing you
a word or jacket,
you are nestled in my pocket
there for my hand to hold
milfoil
in loneliness
not as good as breath
yet as you go
I mourn your departure
as though
you had been here with me
all the time
your hand also
there in mine.

your breath offends me
in and out from day to day
without him
how can you breathe at all