This piece of creative nonfiction is based on a journal entry I wrote in the early 1990s I sit alone in the coffee shop. It is the kind of self-conscious coffee shop that sells Fair-Trade coffee in large white ceramic mugs and serves food on mismatched china. The baristas are young, attractive, pierced and tattooed. … Continue reading Still-life with Coffee
you held me in tender embrace in your deepest heart we lived together laughed together dreamed together breathed together unfathomable that anyone could take my place it was an exchange quick and quiet waking up alone stripped of you of our imagined future a featherless newborn bird raw, pink awkward unsteady heads turn away from … Continue reading An Exchange Quick and Quiet
Mary Lambert is an underrated artist. Although I love her collaboration with Macklemore and Lewis, her charm and humanness in this stand-alone video gives me the warm and fuzzies. It also makes me nostalgic for my 20's. https://youtu.be/NhqH-r7Xj0E She says I smell like safety and home I named both of her eyes forever and please … Continue reading The Daily Song She Keeps Me Warm Mary Lambert @marylambertsing
Friends, they had always just been friends. Good friends. Friends who could always make the other laugh. Who it was never too late to call or text if your car broke down, or you needed to talk out a decision, or your heart had just been broken, or the night was long and lonely. “Hey, … Continue reading Soundtrack
Today’s piece was inspired by the song Sweet Serendipity by Lee DeWyze. Thank you thesarahdogherty for the introduction and the creative inspiration. She walked into HubBub and joined the long queue to wait for her daily coffee. She liked it iced with lots of almond milk and just enough sugar to take the edge off the bitterness. … Continue reading Sweet Serendipity
I try to focus on what the professor is saying. But it is 4:15 pm and the classroom is warm and she is in class. My attention keeps wandering up a row and two desks over to where she sits. She has the most beautiful hands. Square, strong, long-fingered. I am enthralled with how … Continue reading Caught Looking
Brave & Reckless 