Many years ago, a 16-year-old girl sat down to write a letter. To me. My senior year of high school, my favorite teacher encouraged his AP Lit students to write themselves a letter, and stick it with one of those fancy forever stamps; he promised to hold the letters in...
I’m not good at goodbyes. And by “not good,” I mean I tend to avoid them all together (One big exception would be crying in an alley with my little before I abandoned her to study abroad, but I digress…). With a major chapter of my life coming to a...
“Summertimeee and the livin’ is eeaazzyy..” Oh what a fantastic summer this has been. In a recent conversation with my mother, I said that my life is defined by my summers. I always have fantastic vacations, learning opportunities and personal growth. Honestly, I think oftentimes, I learn more during my...
So there’s this boy… man? boy? I suppose he’s a 70-something manboy. Yup, that sounds pretty accurate. I’ve briefly mentioned this old fart before. But his name is James Francis Bunker. And my relationship to him is that he’s my dad’s college roommate’s old boss. Sounds kinda like that Spaceballs...
Sometimes, when it’s been a while since I last wrote, I get physically agitated. I’m anxious and cloudy and feeling like I’m dangling outside of the physical realm. I realize how, well, ridiculous that sounds, but it’s almost as though there’s so much that needs to come out. And all...
For some reason, I was writing last night and the phrase “shades of you” came to mind. I liked it, so I ran with it. Twice. … Shades of You (v.1) Shades of you, Lackluster faux-mances without the inside jokes and comfortable silences. Poor perfects don’t stand a chance against...
Minimal posts lately… I’m on vacation! I wiggled my way into my dad’s east coast trip. We spent a day in San Francisco then jet off to Connecticut to pick my baby brother up from school. Thennnnnn we drove up to beautiful Boston, to kill some time and see some...
I just returned from a night out with 3 incredible women watching Avenue Q. Muppet sex, masturbation, porn, racism, homosexuality… all crammed into a neat and tidy little musical! It kinda of got me thinking a little deeper about school, though. Odd, I know. But there’s a particular song in...
