The countdown to the birthday has begun. Yesterday, GDF informed me that this will be my last Friday as a 28 year old. She’s a good friend. And as far as birthday plans go: check. No pubcrawls this year, but fun for all will still hopefully be had. And then last night, I got an [...]
About a week ago, I got an email from a guy I used to date….THREE YEARS AGO. We haven’t had any contact since we stopped seeing each other, and then, poof! I get one of those “I was cleaning up some of my old emails and happened by this one… so I thought I’d drop [...]
I stumble over words to describe how I feel about you, and yet I am drawn to the page to notate, define, declare it to be true. So often I write for myself; today I write for you.
You came into my awareness as a curious individual about whom I cautiously wanted to know more. If [...]
Most mornings prove to be a mad dash to get out the door. My alarm goes off, I hit snooze, I get 10 more minutes of semi-craptacular sleep, and when it screeches at me again, I drag myself out of bed and clomp off to the bathroom to begin running the water. It takes about [...]
Where have I gone? Why don’t I write? I ask myself those questions with the passing of each day. Sometimes I begin to type, only to give up on the disquiet I pore upon the electronic page.
Now that I’ve found someone truly special, I seem deadset on fucking it up. He’s the kind of boyfriend [...]
Sometimes the rain whispers things I didn’t know I’d forgotten. A childhood memory or two.
Out my Dad would leap into the downpour, spry and childlike, checking his gutters and downspouts- verifying their draining capacity. Ever the engineer. Once the lawn chairs had been set up in the gaping coolness of the garage, out my brother [...]
It’s funny when the guy you’re seeing- who you might also now be calling BOYFRIEND(!)- goes out of town for a week to some IT Spark-plug Doohickey Fanciness Come-to-the-Motherboard 2009 Conference. In his absence, all manner of “single-gal” debauchery takes place.
Debaucherous stuff like wearing those full-coverage, decidedly unsexy cotton undies when it’s not even your [...]
