"Thanks, God. Thanks for the life you’ve given me, it wasn’t such a bad life. Dying at twenty-five isn’t so bad, it’s going out with a bang, right in the middle of the good part..."
Dead Wrong
Tuesdays; For Ophelias; Motherland; Backyards and BBQs; House Guests
You bought sunflower seeds, planted one for each of us. I watched you weed them until they grew four feet.
Both Sides Now
"Maybe you don’t believe,” she said, exhaling a stream of rich Cuban smoke. “And maybe you don’t miss her. Or maybe you just don’t want to because you don’t understand.”
"Understand what?”
"That you can hate something and love it at the same time.”
Sucker Punch; On Tremor; On Gratitude; My Mother, Post-Proposal; Sabbatical
Blessed I am to not be twenty two shoveling confetti cake into my mouth from the kitchen floor after a birthday party he showed up to three hours late.
The Big Things
I was a single mom during most of my kids’ childhoods. They were my life. But I felt like a loser anyway because I never dated, and had never owned a house.
Offshore dilemma; On the way back home; Self-love; Lost pages bring out my shadow self
It's daytime and only one alley is paved with books It's two o' clock in my mind to be precise and proper and the letters on the walls are stolen from the inscription of book thieves;