Past and Present Flashbacks
Writing this with my eyes closed, wanting to keep trapped the thoughts that might slip through the cracks when I look away, out in space.… Read More »Past and Present Flashbacks
Writing this with my eyes closed, wanting to keep trapped the thoughts that might slip through the cracks when I look away, out in space.… Read More »Past and Present Flashbacks
To whom it may concern: I compiled my favorite and best blog posts from the past six years and they’re now in this eBook format,… Read More »Compilation of Best Posts
It’s OK to anticipate different outcomes and impossibilities. It’s OK to prepare our hearts and minds for potential undesirable results. It’s OK to be a… Read More »It is OK to be a Realist
If love is going to destroy you regardless, honey, you might as well feel the rain AND the fire while you’re at it. The optimists… Read More »Love Anyway
“New guy alert, new guy alert!” announced Jenny. She had just come back from the academic advisor’s office. “Technically, aren’t we all new?” sassed Nana.… Read More »Love at Ten Eighty – Excerpt
It was a four-way intersection. He honked at her as she sped up to turn right. In an unexpected move, he turned left and was… Read More »Road Rage Saved the Day
Pensive, he looked away as if trying to find the words that, maybe in his mind, would not offend me. His shoulder touched his chin… Read More »Why Poetry?
“You’re skinny as a dog,” my classmate, Jess, said to me once in high school. That’s my earliest recollection of anyone ever bringing my own… Read More »Eat a Sandwich! — and Other Commands
We’re all out here playing psychiatrists and philosophers and wizards and astronomers; telling one another how to best live life or what the secret to… Read More »What Makes Life Livable
¿Que si me gusta la lluvia, dices? Me llena de alegría. Es lo único que me hace levantar de mi tumba para escribirte alguna carta… Read More »Lluvia de despedida
From someone who’s been there and done that: if you wanna go far away where nobody knows your name, it’s only you in your way.… Read More »Far Away – a Poem
Appreciated, discriminated Fascinated, aggravated Infatuated, humiliated Motivated, devastated; Words can’t express How much, the distress Feelings you can’t undress Become a bigger mess And I… Read More »One Minute to Midnight