If things had worked the way she planned them, her child-her little boy or girl-would be four this year ( Read more... )

There's this feeling she gets when she's in the middle of something she knows is changing her. It probably has a name-whatever Webster calls that mix of joy and anticipation and fear (but maybe there's a little bit of anger in there, too, because who wants to change when you don't know how you're changing, or why, or by what ( Read more... )

It's not like I haven't tried and tried
It isn't where I look but what I find
I've been keeping clear of stepping on the cracks
I miss just enough to keep me coming backShe wants to tell them that she's trying ( Read more... )

Seven ( Read more... )

She loves the changing seasons, the smell of Fall and Spring ( Read more... )

Time passes in her periphery, vaguely realized like REM dreams and reflections in foggy mirrors and those first few days after a heartbreak. It's something so many overlook in favor of what they think are even bigger, more important things: pain and atrophy, loss of dignity and a sense of uselessness, anger and frustration and redemption there ( Read more... )

This is the way Kim's World works (specifically, the same World as everyone else's, but that's moot, in the purely academic sense of the word): Things happen as they must, but on and according to an agenda only they understand. Usually, the agenda appears to be sequential, One After Another, rather than All At Once. (Appears, in this case, ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I forget that what I have is just not normal until I'm out among the living and I catch a stare or a double-take. And, that's okay, the staring. But, I have to admit that I do sometimes tire of assuring people that I'm not contagious.

Let's twitter: #thisisnotleprosyfolks

It has always been said that she has a pretty great poker face. She suspects that, having spent much of her life composing her features on stage (and as often off, but that's a touchy subject), it comes naturally; it has always been as easy (easier) to show no emotion or a false one than to exhibit an authentic one ( Read more... )

Ogi, I miss you.