The little girl cries. Shaking. Head down, avoiding eye contact, yet peeking out from her mess of tangled hair, she is ready to flinch or throw her hands up if she sees any hands coming her way. Mother is in a rage again, and she tells the seven year old to get down on her […]

The words that tumbled out weren’t going at all like I planned, but tumble out they did. They have been rearranged and rewritten, and yet they still didn’t come out as I thought they would, or as I thought they should. In fact, I had such trouble posting this at all. But here they are. […]

Standing in the living room, shoulders tight, she tilts her head, first left, then right, trying to ease the tension in her neck, her jaw, her heart. She’s irritated, and there is a familiar gnawing pain in her stomach. She glances at the eviction notice in her hand again. Calculating how much time she has […]

Smoke and mirrors. Illusion, lies, fantasies and self-deception. I can not be the only one who wonders on a daily basis if what I see is REAL, if what I read is REAL, if what I hear is REAL. We live in fabricated times, and daily we are bombarded with counterfeit people. Carbon copies of […]

I wasn’t going to write this, until I decided that I was. I felt that familiar tug on my heart that grew and became persistently more insistent, whispering in my head and in my dreams, until here I am, chugging coffee in my cookie monster jammies, hair all willy nilly, writing down my thoughts on […]

I sit here at 3 am, when most of this side of the world slumbers, thinking about God. Thinking about childhood. Thinking about imagination. And dust. Yes, dust. Hear me out. It may seem strange. Maybe I am strange. But dust? Not so much. It’s common. Overlooked. Unimportant. Never beautiful. But beautiful it is to […]

This really isn’t for you. The one who thinks he ever owned me, or about those certain ones who might like to try. This isn’t for the haters, the naysayers, the cynics or the doubters. No matter how you may try to revolve my world around you, you can’t. I won’t let you. You have […]