Travis comes to visit me, but I'm blue, and I'm lousy company. I shrug, and apologize for being in the doldrums. "My body is broken and so is my heart. That's all I've got going on right now, and I don't want to bore anyone with it." He tells me that people aren't bored by... Continue Reading →
Complex
I was in Costa Rica with Michelle for 10 days. In ten days you talk. A day of frothy rum drinks and too much sun leads to the tumbling of secrets as we dig our toes into the sand and lean across our beachfront table towards each other. We talk about how I stood on... Continue Reading →
Happy
Today, I'm thankful for the girls that make me laugh harder than anyone in the world. For motorcycles and chocolate chip cookies. For Amsterdam and new beginnings. For new books and gold nail polish. For laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing. For three in one fitting room, laughing out in roars and ugly clothes, “no, bend over,... Continue Reading →
Dead Offer
I have a lot of medical bills. I have a lot of medical bills and a lot of insurance paperwork and a lot of paystubs, and it’s year end, I’m trying to get organized. I pull out my filer that I haven’t used in ages, and I start to whittle down the crap I can... Continue Reading →
Nineteen
The first time I heard this song, you were stretched out on your back in the emptied out shell of Charlie’s van. The three of us had stayed out all night, and come sun up, bleary-eyed and drunk on adventure, you were driving me back to my dorm room. Lying down in the spot where... Continue Reading →