January 2010
16 posts
where do you carry your heart?
I know it has to be possible to carry your heart where it belongs, tucked in there between your lungs, so maybe I just never learned.
There are those who carry their heart in a puddle, cupped in their hands. And it’s not that easy to keep that puddle from running through their fingers. It slowly just leaks out.
Others drag their hearts along the ground like pulling a stubborn dog on a...
groovy dreams
A typical Wednesday evening, sitting on the front porch with my dance bag slung around my back. Just waiting for Diana to pick me up in her shiny red VW Bug for rehearsal, but instead she rolled into my gravel driveway on an old school beach cruiser. We both exchanged clever smiles and I grabbed mine from the garage—we were off!
We took our usual route but instead of riding on the pavement,...
dear mom,
Today I was rummaging through all of Grandma’s drawers trying to find the old family photos. In the midst of searching, I stumbled upon a drawer with only a picture frame inside, turned face-down. I reached in the drawer to pull it out, and sure enough it was yours and Shawn’s wedding photo. I hadn’t even noticed that Grandma had taken it off the shelf. I thought about taking it with me back to...
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