Those Kind of Friends
I am an Easter failure. I didn’t plan an egg hunt, there were no bunnies or chicks, no collared shirts or little girl dresses. Hell, we didn’t even color eggs this year. I boiled and chilled a dozen. I purchased food coloring and vinegar. But when it became time to dip the eggs, I felt [...]
Smugly Satisifed
I’ve got it! Eureka! I’ve go it! It’s Starlight by Muse – that’s the song that’s been eluding me for over a year now. And they’re tricky – that band, offering the song only as an album purchase on Amazon. I may cave and buy the whole damn thing because it’s really the perfect tune [...]
My O and His Existential Crisis
Last week was a banner week. The term banner means “unusually good”. But it can also mean just outstanding. To me outstanding can be good or bad, as long as it’s not ordinary. Last week was outstanding in that it was an advent, the beginning of the second half of my O’s childhood, where [...]
Without Him
She used to have sexual dreams of carnal lust and physical satisfactions but now she just dreams of being held. He is taller than her, the man who comes to her in sleep. Her face is always pressed to his chest while he wraps his arms around her. He kisses the top of her head [...]
Without Tears or Recrimination
We waited for a bleak, gray day to talk about it. That’s always the way. It’s so much easier to be confrontational when the weather is as dank and misty. Frustration can simmer even on the sunniest of days but in the gloom of February it just seems impossible to ignore.
Admittedly we’ve been patching it [...]
Super Duper Tuesday
Happy Super Tuesday. I’m as excited as a school girl at the Valentine’s dance. I just can’t wait to glide on over to my designated polling place and select my dance partner. They are all lined up there on the electronic ballot, hopeful, shiny clean, big smiles on their faces, hoping to have wooed me [...]
Personal Statement of the Desperate Variety
Dear Esteemed, Professional Writers Who Will Either Grant or Deny My Enrollment in the ‘08/’09 Creative Writer’s Workshop,
I am struggling with the task of writing a second personal statement. First there’s the issue of a title. Should I call it my Very Personal Statement? Maybe last year’s essay, titled just Personal Statement, was not [...]
Death By Tennis Ball
Now that I’ve made my apologies and have been forgiven for taking our whole parenting dilemma public, I can concentrate on other apologies like the one I must issue to the woman I almost killed yesterday. It was nearly death by tennis ball which doesn’t happen too often and has me wondering if I should [...]
A Contestant of Sorts
I begged for challenges and only one obliged. Ron over at R World has tempted me to reapply to that damn writing program that wrestled my heart from my chest and hurled it in a dumpster last Spring. And so it begins, my e-mails and phone calls to the same administrative assistant that put up [...]
A Words – Altruism and Asceticism
It’s been an inspired start to ‘08. Without making any real resolutions because I am, as I’ve said before, nearly perfect, it’s still been hard to resist the betterment challenges that are out there in the blogosphere these first days of the New Year. First there’s Jen over at One Plus Two challenging her audience [...]
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