I like my little life and the world that I’ve created. I live in a rental home with a parking lot for a front yard. It has been my home...

I've had a couple of funky months of late. I can't say that they've been my best, but I do anticipate that they will be some of my worst....

From my open window, I can hear the sound of tires as they make their way down Main Street or through the parking lot. It’s been raining...

I was a good wife until I wasn’t. I loved him in the way that I could until I couldn’t. It was when he was on his knees after his usual...

The other day, I was chatting with a friend and in our conversation I blurted out how my life was really all about making enough money to...

I'm starting to see the expanse of time left in my life before me. My eyes get hot and the tears spill over in a bout of self pity when I...

I never took myself for the sort of person who'd constantly breakdown and cry in front of strangers. While I've done it most of my life...

Well, we’ve started the move to Boston. Yesterday, I drove Cat and a car full of her furniture down to her new apartment in the Boston...

From the moment I found out I was pregnant, I decided that I was going to be a bit better than the mother who raised me. In so many ways,...

I'm just getting to know myself. Often, I look at my life. I see the rooms that I’m in. The chipping paint on the walls, the haphazard...

I like to make things. All sorts of things. I make up songs while getting dressed and notice my reflection in the mirror. I sing about...

I moved out of my parent’s at 21. When I try to put into words what growing up in that home was like, I stumble to find the right ones at...

It's Wednesday and the weather is so pleasant that it makes me what to cry a little. One of my dogs is outside and the other is listening...

Something so good and simple that tastes like you've done more than you did. My favorite type of meal. I grew up only eating yellow...

Sometimes I get tired of having to be the adult in my life. I want to be the teenage boy who plays Nintendo and eats bags of spicy...

It's Saturday night and I'm all alone. My daughter is over at a friend's house for the evening. She's spending as much time with them as...

A couple weeks ago, I unceremoniously quit a job that I had taken locally. It was a part-time job thay got me out of the house four...

I went to Paris for the first time when I was 15 on a high school travel-club trip. We did a tour of Madrid, Paris, and finished it off...

I woke up this morning with a blanket of sadness wrapped around me. I had one of those dreams where it punched me in the feels and even...

Every body tells a story. My body is 51. It has known lovers, given pleasure, experienced pain, given birth, lost a life that never got...