My six-year-old does a mean job with the safety scissors, but I’ve seen her eyes light up when I bring the real ones out for whatever task I have set before me. Within the past year she has gotten so much better at following the lines, at cutting and pasting like a little champ, but … Continue reading Hand Me the Safety Scissors… Please
I didn’t blog yesterday. It was the first day I hadn’t blogged since November 31, 2012. And it was a strange feeling to wake up this morning knowing that today would be a new beginning. I hadn’t even planned on finally skipping a day after over 780 in a row, but yesterday just kind of … Continue reading Post Silence
“I am colorblind. Coffee black, and egg white. Pull me out from inside. I am ready… I am fine.” ~Counting Crows Deep inside of each of us is a colorblind child waiting to take control once again, but it is a child who will go begging. Something about this world inevitably changes us from the … Continue reading Colorblind
Dear Journal, It’s been a while, I know. But please don’t judge me. I have good excuses, I swear. Okay, maybe they’re not good, but they’re excuses anyway. Now that I’m finally here, though, I’ll get down to it. I hardly ever read my previous journal entries unless someone discovers an entry and approves of … Continue reading Dear Journal: This Divine Symmetry
The unraveling of fabric Inconsequential at best Sliding across the cold floor Wishing for a connection An ephemeral consequence Born of needle and thread And a frantic desire to please I stand in dark shadows Facing the incoming dawn With a transcendental gaze Transfixed by the thought of you This possibility born of chance And … Continue reading Shades and Pastels
“If this week had a theme to it, what would yours be?” In upstate New York on a Thursday night the protagonist slides into a hot bath instead of going to a poetry reading. He has gone back and forth all day debating the merits of each, but the bath has won out after going … Continue reading 300 Writing Prompts: #108
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