I dreamt about a girl from my past last night. She was a girl I had known through elementary school and forgotten about within the final days of high school - I had no special connection to her aside from her being a single puzzle piece that marked a time long ago.

The dream was quite vivid, more vivid than most dreams but not quite as vivid as ( Read more... )

If the past seven months have taught me anything, it's that if you play with fire you ultimately get burned.  I thought about analyzing the situation, questioning why she would send an instant message after three months of complete silence and request that I 'give her permission' to add a photo of me when I know she has done so in the past.....but ( Read more... )

"Don't tell me"

"Oh, but I have to" she stated in the playful manner that all girls do when they conceal a secret.

"Don't tell me.  I don’t want to know, I don’t want to know…" I repeated, but it was to no avail as she decided to go into it anyways.

"She has a boyfriend" she spurted out over the phone as she allowed her voice to trail ( Read more... )

After throwing away my birthday cards, and coming to the realization that for the first time in my life I have received cards and gifts, but haven't made face to face contact with the gift givers, I'm overcome with that strange 'end of the party atmosphere' where I’m left asking, what happened?  It seems as if everyone has fallen into a strange ( Read more... )