The Walks We Hustle On
We take our dogs for a walk around the streets near our house. For the most part, these trips are short, five or ten minutes […]
View ArticleChange of Scenery
If I could live anywhere, I’d like to live in Vermont. Or Virginia. (No, I’m not actually moving just yet.) My original thought was Virginia. […]
View ArticleThree Significant Memories
Tying my first knot. We were still a family of four, me, Mom, Dad, and L, and still living in our apartment. It was early […]
View ArticleLady Friends
On my way to work, I passed a Dunkin’ Donuts shop. Two women, their hands filled with coffee, strode past in flats, skinny jeans, and floral shirts. […]
View ArticleWhat's in a Ballet Shoe
I’ve been really captivated by ballet and ballet practices recently. One question I always had was “How do ballerinas stand on their toes like that?” […]
View ArticleVeronica Roth Interview
I know, I know. I’m a bit behind with the whole bandwagon business. One of the things I like to do at work — and […]
View ArticleThe Hardest Thing I've Experienced
You wouldn’t know this by the way I’ve been posting these topics, but it’s taken me a while to get to this one, if only […]
View ArticleIn the Pines – Parkington Sisters
This is the creepiest, most haunting song I’ve ever heard. I came across it on this 8tracks mix, and while they don’t have a video […]
View ArticleDescribing Inspiration
It is the flush of heat that comes over your cheeks in the middle of the day, probably during a boring class, or an overlong […]
View ArticleDescribing Energetic
It’s the splash of fresh-squeezed orange juice in your glass on a Saturday morning after a restful sleep, with the sun shining through newly-cleaned windows. […]
View ArticleDescribing Terrified
It’s throwing up before a show and feeling like your guts have just all pooled on the floor. When you run into a group of hardened, tough men at the mouth of a darkened alley, it’s the white-hot heat...
View ArticleDescribing Embarrassed
When you’re making a presentation, it’s forgetting all your lines, and your materials, and becoming hot, and sweaty, and panicked while a group of bored, impatient, sympathetic, and tired faces wait...
View ArticleDescribing Hesitant
When you enter a dirty bathroom, it’s the reluctance you have to touch the stall doors, or the sink knobs, or even use one of the toilets. It’s the uncertain look you pass to your friends as you try to...
View ArticleOf Spring Fever
I like the way we will uncover flowers during our cleanup of the yard. I like the smell of the rain, and the clean streams it makes as it washes the dirt and sand and salt from my car. I like the way...
View ArticleDescribing Remorseful
When you get angry at someone for disagreeing with you, and you snap at them without thinking, it’s the feeling you’re left with after realizing you were wrong. It’s the feeling you get while you’re...
View ArticleLana Del Rey – West Coast
I’ve been listening to this song a fair bit lately, not so much for the lyrics as for the dream-like quality of the song. It’s harder, and has more of a beachy feel to it, than some of her others do,...
View ArticleOf Getting Your Arm (Almost) Yanked Out
It’s never been easy to walk our dogs. Salchicha is small, but twenty-five pounds is a helluva lot heavier when it’s being pulled off the end of your arm. Then we got the Hound, and well…he pulls so...
View ArticleDescribing Openness
It’s wanting to go out, until you actually get asked to do something, and then saying you’ll go anyway because didn’t you just want this? When you’re out, it’s reminding yourself why you’re there, and...
View ArticleOf Returning the Call
I saw something really very beautiful today: when the Hound got loose, I jumped onto the back deck, called his name, and displayed an admittedly huge chunk of ham. He saw it. His tail went up. He came...
View ArticleDescribing Shame, and #ROW80
It’s telling your best friend something private and secret about yourself, and then listening to her reprimand you for even having those thoughts at all. It’s the hot-cold flush you feel afterwards,...
View Article