I'll never know why all those years, from my childhood through young adulthood, my mother told my siblings and me the story that Daddy didn't end up going overseas to fight with the Tuskegee Airmen during WWII because she didn't…
View writingThere are many ways a heart can feel tired. Grief. I hope Katie’s heart is less tired now that her parents, who were my dear friends, have passed. During the last several years of their lives, she gave them an…
View writingHer heart was tired today. She had worked so hard to build up her daily schedule, to have meaningful work to do and enough social interaction and exercise to keep her on an even keel, and this injury had toppled…
View writingSince the emergence of Trump onto our social/political scene, our hearts have been tested, indeed. In fact, so tested that as of this very moment, I'm not sure how much heart I have left. But, of course, i do care...and…
View writingThe heart is tired. “Is,” present tense. There is no present tense with the heart, with my heart; it is all past tense, giving out emotionally when hers gave out physically. Was her heart tired? I’ve asked myself that question…
View writingMy heart is tired from so much death. The deaths of good friends I've known, some of them all of my life. My heart is tired from seeing their beautiful young smiling faces in their youth and knowing now that…
View writingThe quit factor never amazes me. I mean, people quit things for all sort of reasons. Sometimes quitting is the right move, like when the river breaks its banks and it simply makes no sense to continue sandbagging the front…
View writing"It worked again." That's what my ex said while he was telling me all about his new love. "It" is the online dating app he used to find her. The same one where he found me. Technically, "again" is wrong…
View writingIt's been one of those months - the same as the last 5 months actually. Did what I think happen really happen or was that just a movie I watched where bad things happen to good people? When I think…
View writingTrigger Warning: Existential Themes; Profanity and Strong Language; Mental Health; Cultural References, Stereotypes, & Appropriation; LGBTQ+; Food/Eating with Sexual Connotations Title: “Oh, it’s already been broughten!” (1,087 words) Or – The Clovers vs Lady Mondegreen Or – Pop culture and…
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