He looked up - and everything changed ( Read more... )

I haven’t written anything in months. Well, I want to believe it has only been months, when it may actually be a year or more. It feels that way, regardless of the truth. In any case, this isn’t meant to be anything of consequence. This is an exercise, a flexing of the muscles, a walk in the park, not a marathon ( Read more... )

and so i go go go
out into the world i know know know

click bang boom

five seconds of life

four seconds to think

one to do

we all stop mid stride.

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I've never been able to pack until the day I leave. I never truly know what I'll want to take with me until that moment when I'm stepping out the door ( Read more... )

Oh, chastisement.

On days like today, when your stomach feels like it's been shoved in a blender that's been thrown in a dryer installed below deck on a luxury cruise liner carrying Salmonella infected poultry dishes, you've got Jesus.

Two hours past the last glassful of dirt cheap blush wine, my mind is reeling and my stomach can't stay put either. I've ended up here, somehow, due to a cloudy series of events that involve a pseudo celebration (it's somebody's birthday out there, somewhere, so cheers to them), a depressingly empty wallet, and a full tank of gas. But the cool ( Read more... )

This year's (and summer's) theme, "Guilty Cubicles", as the men behind Broken Social Scene so aptly predicted some years back in a gloriously relaxing song with no words but a meaning perfectly clear to me, has not touched this protagonist as much as it has others. This season has seen a surge of trips out of state, long nocturnal dialogues ( Read more... )

90s rock turn me inside out, throw my face on the pavement and push hard, crushing like, popping facial vessels and disintegrating bone like flimsy ping pong balls under Reebok high top sneakers. This is it, this is what I've been missing - give me that post grunge Clintonian optimism, give me teen angst and riot grrl. My shirt hangs loose in ( Read more... )