For years after my husband and I met, we slept chest-to-chest, our arms wrapped around each other. We were so relieved to have finally found each other, we just couldn't let go. Not long before I met him, I had…
View writingMy soul feels very alone right now, and that's not bad or sad. Whatever a soul is, that's what we come into the world with and leave with as well. There are dozens of versions of sayings about coming into…
View writingI want my health back. And maybe this new medication will give that to me but in the past 15 years, nothing has taken the seizures out of my life permanently, so I doubt it. They have their own way…
View writingI quit my job, moved out of my apartment, loaned my car to a friend and left Massachusetts for California, with no awareness of what I was doing. Called it “a visit” but it was a change of subject. The…
View writingI read the prompt and felt sick. Sometimes I use the prompts as starting places, but they send my off in a barely adjacent theme, but this one kicked me in the gut. I've been going through another phase of…
View writingThe day my dearest ex-husband and close soul mate friend Paul died, in NYC...the anniversary is soon. Hard to believe it has been already two years almost...and i want what i cannot have: to have Paul alive and by my…
View writing"I want what I can't have" is such a limiting statement, and immediately takes be back to the feelings of discouragement and lack delivered to me by my six grade teacher, Mrs. Walden. When an impressionable 11-year old, who already…
View writingYou said something that has made me wander from what I might normally do, which would be to see what I could spin in fifteen or twenty minutes, or dig my broken heart out the garden, look at it, and…
View writingOne Sunday in the fall of 1963, I believe before John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Dick Elwell was driving his Triumph TR 3 down through the Catskills on his way to Lime Rock, Conn. to watch the Gran Prix races.…
View writingGerald R. Fox was an engineer working for the General Electric Corporation. He was in research and development. At the moment he headed up the Bearings and Lubrication Lab. He was one of the foremost authorities on bearings and lubrication…
View writingLife is nothing if not an incomplete attempt to figure out why we are alive and what we are doing with our time on this earth. I am reading a great deal of science fiction these days, and it all…
View writingHad the very deepest sleep last night...so deep, simmered in dreams that it ached to wake up. Dreams so realistic, that to wake up felt more like the dream than the dream itself. Dreams so deep and detailed, so deeply…
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