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i am not homesick, but i am nostalgic. for open fields, acoustic songs, and moonlight. for folks who hike in the trees, and jump over creeks. the chaos of car wheels on a gravel road. lately i sit in my … Continue reading →

The real danger resides in the human heart. I am now a school librarian. It happened so quickly, an ambush, and I had no reason not to accept his offer and become employed. To celebrate, we went out to dinner. … Continue reading →

She said to me: “maybe not from the sources you have poured yours maybe not from the directions you are staring at an aeroplane will curve gracefully around the volcano with the eruption that never lets you down We all … Continue reading →

One of these mornings You’re going to rise up singing Then you’ll spread your wings And you’ll take to the sky

Lately things don’t come easily. Actually, many things are coming easily, as if by fiber, but this makes it difficult to write. I am settled in a home that I like, with a boy that I love, in a city … Continue reading →

Dating in highschool was a necessity, but never very interesting. Especially the movie-going dates. As tradition would have it, I usually purchased the tickets and the popcorn, and would hold her (alas…) hand rigidly on the arm rest. One particularly … Continue reading →

It seems like all we do is relocate from one place to another. We have now moved FIVE times in the last THREE years. Tony claims that he is not, in fact, running from the Mob or anything like that…but … Continue reading →

Talkative, but timid. Enthusiastic, but annoyed. Loving, but sometimes unloved. Yet still committed, with no qualifiers. And back together again.

They weren’t there to pick the tomatoes, nor sample the lettuce. It was a clandestine conversation, some stolen moments amongst the vegetables. No one was around to listen. Did they make a sound?

“I’m in the mood I’m in the mood for love I’m in the mood, I’m in the mood Baby, I’m in the mood for love I said night time is the right time, to be with the one you love … Continue reading →