Dear Acquaintances of Bob, my car ( Read more... )

Outside my window a gust of wind makes chaos of a scene that was stillness only a moment ago. Palm trees bend beneath the power of the invisible tempest, rise, and bend again. Their great fronds battle between heaven and earth. The street below is littered with great limbs-casualties of the war raging above. The sound of oranges hitting the ( Read more... )

She squeezes her eyes closed. Over and over again she tells herself in a frightened whisper that it is only a long night. A very long night ( Read more... )

On Monday I was walking down the hall at work and I stopped to say buenos dias to my favorite Mexican lady, Elizarda. Last week I pushed Elizarda in her wheelchair to lunch. As soon as I had her parked at her table she pulled my face close to hers so she could tell me (in Spanish and then English), "They're coming for all of the Mexican women! ( Read more... )

I love being married. Todd said yesterday that every other time in his life he's been looking forward to something else, but now for the first time he is completly content with where he is now. I know that feeling. This morning I stumbled out of bed at 5:30 after four hours of sleep because I had been called into work after I had been assured ( Read more... )

Weddings are always chaos and madness, a flurry of relatives you don't remember and relatives you have never met. Somehow ours turned out to be a flurry of relatives who we aren't related to. . . or something. Our wedding was amazing. The ceremony was beautiful, the day was gorgeous, and everything on our end went flawlessly (I can't speak for ( Read more... )

I stayed up reading last night until 2, slept in until 9:30, I haven't had to go outside all day, and now I am only three days away from key lime pie! Summer is the greatest.

This is my announcement to the world that I am now officially done with finals. I'm FREE!!

Dear Elspeth,
Thank you very much for the dental floss. My dentist has been telling me that I need to floss more. Since I received your gift, my teeth have been sparkling like never before.
Savannah

For this poem, everyone in my FHE group was given a word to write a poem about in any format. Some people did riddles and haikus. I wrote this ( Read more... )