I just got a pop-up ad that read "If you died today, who would take care of your family?"

And the picture was a young girl crying over a grave that read "father"

I'm still trying to decide why someone would ever think that this would be an effective way to sell insurance. Or anything, for that matter.

I'm beginning to realize just how many people in my life are perfectly unique characters by themselves that it would be a sin not to tell their stories. No embellishments necessary ( Read more... )

I recently realized that blackberries have the oddest aftertaste.

I looked up the word "tiny" in my online thesaurus.
I didn't find an acceptable replacement and moved on.

But I left the page open. And the phrase "tiny synonyms" is sprawled across the tab.

I kind of like it.
It sounds delicious.

I will write. I will always write ( Read more... )

This morning my dog crawled in bed with me and curved himself into my stomach.

I wrapped an arm around him and we both slept briefly until my alarm went off.

It was the second most perfect way to spend my first few minutes of a morning.

Keeping in touch with students
Chilean-slang I never even heard while living there
English so poor but attempts so admirable
telling me how much I affected them
waiting for my return "con abrazos"
making me glow

A lot has been happening in the past few weeks, most of which I don't necessarily feel the need to talk about. This culmination of events, however, has made it incredibly difficult to pick apart my individual reactions to each one and everything blurs into this lethargic yet high-anxiety state of being ( Read more... )

Sometimes life
is just way too hard

and you wonder when you're going to start getting a smidgen of a break

1) I think that using a thesaurus is cheating. It's taking words that other people connected because you can't think of the words on your own ( Read more... )