Rushing In

As natural light fades, artificial lights emerge to fill the space.

Arachnoid Death Spasms

I think that my neighbor-lady killed my writing spider and, if I am able to confirm this, I may never speak to her again.

She Doesn't Know That Her Time Has Passed

In such a place as this is - so alive with speech and movement, I feel as if I am merely the ghost of a girl who once sat in the window booth of the old establishment, ages before anyone knew of the Gin Blossoms or Bud Light.

Not Unlike Peering Through A Rain-Soaked Windshield

My edges are fuzzing.

A Phone Call I Never Anticipated Making

What is the proper reaction upon finding out that someone whom, up until four years ago, you saw several times a week but were never terribly close to has died?

Fathers And Sons

I envy the ease of their relationship and genuine pleasure that they gain from one another's company.

Conundrum

What should you do when you are too sick to sleep at night but then by mid-morning you are too well to go to the doctor?

It Has Been A Long Time

The last traces of my sun-and-surf bleached-blond hair are nearing the end of their existence and, once they are gone, I will have no record of my time there.

Geological Philosophy

We are all kin to stars.

What Are You Hiding?

As much as it sounds like a trendy bumper sticker, normal people really do worry me because while 'strange' people tend to wear their quirks on their sleeves, I cannot shake the notion that 'normal' people are hiding theirs more deeply for a reason.

I Long For The Adaptations That We Have Gained And Lost

Despite the fact that I know that I should be thankful for my highly developed brain, upright posture, and opposable thumbs I find myself feeling somewhat bereft after reading through Planet Earth.

It's The Rhythm Of The Changing Tides

I have discovered that I truly enjoy the new rhythm of my life even though I can foresee it becoming overwhelming at times.

He Who Should Not Be A Manager

Anyone who uses the word 'snafu' needs to be slapped in the face.

Forever Gone Is The Idealized Mother Of My Childhood

The more I work on this post, wording and rewording the same thoughts over and over again, the more I come to realize that it all boils down to this: after my experience in Virginia, I will never look at my mother the same way again.

Authors Read And Should Therefore Know Better

The first line of a book can ruin the rest of the book for you because while you may not know how things will happen, you certainly have a pretty darn good idea what happens.

Flash And The Lines Disappear

The day's imagined and fanciful danger, self imposed via roller coasters, was dramatically foiled as the evening's reality came crashing in on us from the sky.

It Is By No Means An Irrational Fancy That, In A Future Existence, We Shall Look Upon What We Think Our Present Existence, As A Dream

Listening to someone speak at great length about one of my favorite historical figures makes him seem more of fiction than fact.

Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Woosh, Wee!

Watching my baby sister learn that she loves roller coasters is like discovering part of myself in her that I cannot wait to cultivate further.

Next Time Has To Be An Improvement

I would be the one to travel hundreds of miles from home, towards a potentially awesome week of amusement park fun, only to get dreadfully sick for virtually the entire length of my stay.

Go, Have Fun - I'm Fine

Leaving the pups at Jean's house felt just as I would imagine taking my human children to kindergarten for the first time.

Four Months Can Be A Very Long Time

After compiling my work and school schedules today I realized for the first time just how busy these next few months are truly going to be.

Now I Know What People Mean When They Say "Eustress"

Why can things never ever be easy?

Who Comes Up With Such Things?

Today is National Rice Pudding Day and even though there are barely two hours left in 'today' and I have to be up at six, I want to rush out and buy lots of rice pudding to celebrate!

Just Because You Don't Want It To Be True Doesn't Make It So

The Yangtze River Dolphin may very well be extinct now because of the senseless destruction humans seem to spawn everywhere they roam and I cannot help but hope that they have secretly escaped their fate, even as I mourn their passing.

Tut Tut It Looks Like Rain

After an afternoon filled with promising thunderheads and nearly one-hundred percent humidity then topped off with a night punctuated with flashes of heat lightning, I cannot help but be disappointed in the lack of a decent storm.

The Small Print Will Get You Every Time

I make the best effort that I am able when it comes to spiders on the walls of my shower, but when I look up and the spider in question has moved in my direction and/or disappeared, all treaties are henceforth null and void.

Pink Floyd Made Me Write This, It Came Unbidden.

I miss him in the small hours of the day, in the breaths between thoughts, and in my waking moments when I imagine that he is still nestled into the small of my back, or me in his.

Reaching The Minds That Have Not Yet Closed

Listening to her talk about the class she is teaching in the fall makes me wish that I would follow through with my dream of teaching science to elementary school students.

Money Is Tight But That Is No Excuse For Shoddy Cookery

To the truly delightful ziti that I subjected to freezer burned broccoli and 'zesty cheese sauce' (that, truth be told, had probably lost its zest before leaving my mother's freezer): you deserved more than this abysmal fate and you have my sincere apologies.

Ctrl+A, Delete

If all of my entires were to mysteriously disappear one day, what sort of reaction would I have?

But He Can Still Be A Doggie!

I am saddened to realize that I live in an era in which Pluto has lost its status as a planet.