Have you ever been at a loss? I have. In fact, I’m at a loss right now. It’s a loss that lacks an exact definition, but there’s nothing lacking about its presence. It’s definitely there. In my spirit, there’s a hole. How to fill it, I’m not sure. I don’t believe that it can be […]
The official start of summer was just around the corner. It was May of 1997, and I was heading home to California from Michigan after a long spring semester. The drive normally took me four days if I didn’t drive at breakneck speed, but then again, I was motoring along in a Plymouth Colt at […]
They say that when you get married, it’s most important to know the other person really, really well. Inside-out, from head to toe. I disagree with this. I think it’s most important to first know yourself, then the other person. I say this not as someone who’s passing judgment or as someone who claims to […]
Billy Joel is one of my favorite musicians. The first concert I ever went to was one of his, and he’s responsible for my pre-teen love affair with the state of New York. I used to open up the encyclopedia and sketch the entire state, counties included. When a stray cat we took in ended […]
I’ve seen them more frequently in the last 10 years or so, and I feel a little bad about their shrinking habitat. That said, they don’t seem to be at a loss for sustenance, as I often see them diving down into the brush alongside the freeway, grabbing something [literally] to eat, then flying off […]
I have an odd relationship with the word “forever.” When I was in high school, my first relationship had all the hallmarks of young love. It was new, exciting, tumultuous and occasionally kept me up at nights. A few years in, I found myself in an especially trying time. We were both changing and growing, […]
Have you ever been paralyzed by fear, your own self-doubt or just not had any idea what’s holding you back? You don’t know what the next step should be, how long it should take, and what the step after that would entail. Instead of simply starting, we think, we overanalyze, we procrastinate. Where do we […]
They line the streets on my evening walk, and they’re nothing short of breathtaking. As the flowers fall, they float silently but deliberately until they meet the asphalt. At the second they come to rest, a faint, delicate pop is heard; it’s almost inaudible. I pass through patches of lavender snow, courtesy of the jacaranda […]
They’re exes for a reason, but we also partnered up with them in the first place because there was something that we liked about them, right? They might’ve been around for a few months or a few years, but no doubt they had an ability to leave a few parting gifts when they moved on. […]
By design, my life is fairly quiet. Sometimes I wonder if it’s too quiet, but not because I feel I’m missing something. I wonder this because I’ll occasionally look inside my world from an outsider’s point of view and I’ll think that something needs to change. This is a short-lived belief. I’m more than good […]
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