It’s a bittersweet Easter this year. One of my closest friends lost her niece. Her text said, “…has gone to rest” and I didn’t believe it at first. Because her niece was 27 years old. Who dies suddenly at 27? If you knew Georgina, you knew her giant appetite for life, her zeal…I mean she […]
It seems we never have time, these days, to say goodbye, to hear a voice for the last time, guffaw together one more time, because lives are snatched from us in a blink. They say you’ve gone to a better place, and this means you’ve left us in a place full of tumult, leaving an […]
Let’s talk about blessings, shall we? Now, I am not a Bible thumper by any means but I do have a healthy belief in a higher power. I pray. I try to live my life as morally upright as I can manage. I love me some Jesus. Now, a few things happened within the last […]
It’s amazing how people can judge you without having the full story in hand. And it’s even more amazing at how much I have decided that I don’t care have other priorities to worry about, a bit more than whether someone understands where I am coming from. You have to make decisions for yourself, to […]
His eyes widened visibly at the sight of me. I looked away and continued to walk towards the corridor opening, veering left so I could avoid him, but I kept watching him from my peripheral vision. He stopped in his tracks. ‘God, you are pretty…’ he almost shouted the words at me, and I paused […]
The whispers of the night collided in his head, causing him to tremble beneath the thin, worn sheet. His bed was narrow and hard, held together by wisps of wood that he had pulled from the pile of throwaways behind the furniture factory. His ears were burning and he knew that they were speaking of […]
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Love, Loss, and Life's Adventures
The heart harries the mind to tarry; only dead fish go with the flow
The dream is free; the hustle is sold separately
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