"The worst is over..." says the voice on the well-worn CD. I usually don't even pay attention to the words as I sing them along, but today it just rubs me the wrong way. "LIAR!" I call out accusingly, adding him to the list I am now tallying in my head of people that have done me wrong. It isn't an all-inclusive list, just those I can think of ( Read more... )

I'm rarely intimidated by women based on their looks. I'm rarely intimidated by women on their intellect. However, when I meet a man that is charming, sensitive, and attractive, I do assume that he is most likely attached, and probably to a girl that is "together." By "together" I mean the kind of girl that eats square meals, gets her oil ( Read more... )

wound tightly into an arch
lazing; unwinding
Breathe in Breathe out-out again
one foot in front, front of the other
the steady gait stops, mid-thought
turning to look at you
as if to remind you of the power
hidden in the little
creature which, now returning
to its previous purpose
now purrs

When I think that one day, not so far off, maybe even in a few years, I will be somebody's wife, somebody's mother, maybe someone's teacher or social worker, it makes me know for certain that I will look back on this and remember what it felt like ( Read more... )

I open one eye this morning, and see Levi waiting beside me, apparently wishing me to wake up.

Good morning, Levi.

I turn twenty-three in people years todayOur conversation continues as he follows me down the hall and perches himself onto the side of the tub while I take this morning's bubble bath. I tell him about all of the things coming ( Read more... )

I come home and I have entire conversations with my cat. I tell him about an idiot I had to deal with at work, that gas is getting too expensive, and that I thought of him when I saw that my right pants leg had a Levi-sized area covered in orange fur from where he had nuzzled against my calf on the way out the door. I promise him that as soon as ( Read more... )