Today I'm hardened with a shell of depression. What is keeping me from breaking out, moving on, trying? I don't know if it's sheer intimidation, or fear, that keeps me in this crowded bubble, latching onto gross familiarity, and new men to dote on me to remind me I'm worth something. Why can't I just be satisfied alone ( Read more... )

10 years ( Read more... )

My sisters pinning from the dental hygiene program was Tuesday, a very personal and beautiful ceremony. Joey pinned her on stage; the whole thing was obviously very ceremonial and for the purpose of family. Just being able to conceptualize her experience from the inner network of other couragous students I finally had a face to match to their names ( Read more... )

Poetry updates ( Read more... )

This semester really and truly kicked my white ass.

Well today I was notified that my poem won 3rd place in the annual Marjorie Sparrow Award for poetry. I'll be reading at the writers reception thursday afternoon at Framingham State.

Very humbled.

"A Practical Approach"

I’m asked how I perceive visual stimuli.
To ask inward, do I see with eyes, or feel with eyes?

A homeless woman pushes a ( Read more... )

I've got the cat rubbing against me as I fidget to type. His purring is nice, at least; when do we ever get the chance to hear comfort, in it's purest form, without the cognitive noise that accompanies human comfort?

I want to remember what life felt like before I knew I had the ability to feel it.

I bought a Rod Stewart cd the other day for no reason other than to quench some nostalgic thirst, to touch upon a simpler time in my life ( Read more... )

I am so sickly nostalgic today. Today I went to a 2 year olds birthday, who is the son of my girlfriend of ten years. A few of the girls I went to high school with were there with their new babies, and I couldn't help but sit back and observe the changes life brings that really sneak up while you're busy making other plans (Lennon). I felt really ( Read more... )

Sunday evenings invite a feeling of wholesome wind-down ( Read more... )