The Spinning Plate Challenge I Call Life

I need to settle down. I have to keep myself in line and realistic. I’m not sure where this aching need to do everything at once originated but I sure as hell could stand to ache a bit less these days. What is it that makes me utterly patient with others, forgiving and understanding of [...]

The Un-Friending Process

When the staleness of a past argument is left in your mouth, nothing tastes right.  Nothing feels right either.  Things you once used to enjoy are laced with a frown, pulling at your smiles.  Words spoken or unspoken keep you from progressing anywhere back to “normal” or forward.  Why can’t a friendship be stronger than [...]

Sitting Pretty in Your Dreams

I’m just going to pretend that what I say next will be perfectly expressed in such a cliche: I love my life.  I’m so thankful for it and I’m honestly stuck in “happy disbelief” at how it all turned around so quickly.  A year ago today I was physically very sick and spiritually challenged.  I [...]

Susie Sells Shells Down By the Seashore. Maybe I’ll buy one of hers…

I feel like my protective shell, the one in which I feel most comfortable, is cracking and soon will shatter.  This would reveal the worst thing an introspective soul could imagine: themselves, wholly and transparently.  Keeping up the front, holding the nightmares at bay and protecting my insides from the outside is the purpose of [...]

Not Your Typical Spring Break…

I feel rushed. I shouldn’t–I have no one pressuring me to write.  But still, I feel this aching need to write about the past week in my life: all the little intricacies that I love.  I’d feel unimpressive and like I was missing my chance if I obstained from writing any longer.  Whether the following [...]

Tie Down

Standing at the end of a railway track Finding no place else to go, not wanting to go back I’ve lost all of my gifts along the way I can see you speak to me, but I won’t listen to what you say Cuz you can’t tie down a mountain It doesn’t have hands that [...]

Power

With no company save the constant hum of my ceiling fan, I’m sitting atop my bed. I’m sitting in the same place that I’ve felt all the different emotions I’ve felt since I could feel. In this bed I have felt sad, depressed, scared, lonely, alone, left out, wistful, romantic, playful and angry. Hot tears [...]