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  • Tree Hugger 

    Chronology is someone else’s problem. I’m more a stream of consciousness girl. I’ve already told you about my motivations for going to Everest Base Camp – and then there’s the journey and the preparation for the journey, the gear, the must haves and the never do this. Let’s talk touchy feely preparation. I knew from…

  • Birthday

    I’m dead with dying There is an eye I refuse to catch I was born with knowing I look and I listen and I discern I know You’ve caught my eye I’m not God But I know Tell me everything The bile and the filth and the worst, pour it All that will be left…

  • The Scenic Route

    Let’s forgo the easy way. In October, I found myself at a funeral for a friend’s daughter, who was just shy of her 19th birthday. She’s just a kid. It’s the phrase that played on repeat the whole day. At the service, two things were emphasized that struck a deep, reverberating chord in me: — Finish your…

  • Fight for Your Rights, Grace Needs a Vacay

    there are no promises that can be kept by gift we live by right we die grace is optional except when it’s not the grace to bear grief is sometimes always never the only prayer there is in these hot, breathless last days, it’d do us to get on with the praying sooner than later

  • Nothing There

    I went back to read your words But they aren’t there They aren’t to be found The website says Nothing here There’s nothing there Was there ever? If I can’t read the words I can’t be sure I ever knew you You always knew I was of flightly, flimsy flesh So why take the words…

  • Anthology

    A word, self-righteous angel If you write the Anthology of You There are consequences Demon-meaning In essence It’s time to drink down the medicine: If you play with Ouija Don’t complain about the smell of dead people

  • Something Other Than Fate

    On Monday, happenstance occurred. Happenstance, I say, because I’m not sure I believe in fate or destiny, puzzle pieces fitting together just so. I see a yellow sticky note on my office floor. I leave it there for several hours. I have things to do. In the mid-afternoon, I pick up the note and take…

  • Questions and Shit/BTW I have tonsilitis.

    All about me. In one word describe how you currently see yourself: homely One prominent nickname you were given: ML or in my other life, Lo One strange fact about yourself: I hate constrictions of having to come up with one response when I mostly have several responses to questions, some of which are mutually…

  • Giving It to You the Way You Want It

    Bryan has answered seven pressing questions (seven, because he refused to answer any more or less because of his ocd). Enjoy. 1. Do you find Nestle Crunch bars slightly more satisfying than love? Be honest. When I was young, I did find Nestle Crunch bars more satisfying than love. But, truth be told, love to…

  • Questions for you, dear reader

    1. How do you define crumptiousness? 2. How do you plan to make the holidays gloomy? 3. When you give a little, do you take a lot more? 4. If a soda goes flat, is it dead? 5. Do the glue pads really work to catch rodents?