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  • Groceries and Single People
    I come before you tonight with one rant and one rant only: Why aren’t there more grocery stores catering to single households in this country?! Are the people who run Trader Joe’s the only ones in the United States of America who have got it right? They seem to understand that some of us… Read more: Groceries and Single People
  • Words – they mean things
    Big, like an enthusiastic move like today’s news like my dreams my energy, like my blues Bright, in my eyes, like the light in my room Soft, like my touch, like my shadow like my heart like my voice Deep, like my soul like your sleep like my love like the ocean; a cliché… Read more: Words – they mean things
  • Motherhood: No Should or Could
    Runny noses every other week. Bodies discovering and adapting to a new disease. Obliviousness to reasons why one should not bring their dirty hands to their mouths; licking common area surfaces like they’re a lollipop.  Giggly faces, sweaty foreheads, and pounding little hearts. Their fast, sharp turns around the red slide make my own… Read more: Motherhood: No Should or Could
  • Ghosting – and other heartless behaviors
    As defined by Merriam-Webster online dictionary, ghosting is: the act or practice of abruptly cutting off all contact with someone (such as a former romantic partner) usually without explanation by no longer accepting or responding to phone calls, messages, etc.  I personally couldn’t picture Romeo and Juliet ghosting each other, could you? But I… Read more: Ghosting – and other heartless behaviors
  • Hustle, bustle, and in-betweens
    Life is but hustle and bustle sometimes so in the in betweens I find distraction a shooting star, a deep inhale walk for ten miles and then exhale The dazzling light of the city attracts me like a moth east or west, poetry is a sunset, art the subtle contrast against the dark triggers… Read more: Hustle, bustle, and in-betweens
  • Mixed feelings and life itself
    Are you ever torn between “I don’t give a f*ck” and “I felt that too much”? Entirely. Because I completely hear you if you are. There are millions of us who can connect with that sentiment. (And there’s an even more inclined crowd, like this self-proclaimed poet, who feels everything even deeper.) I’ve known… Read more: Mixed feelings and life itself

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