I am going to visit my father today. He is quite ill, has been for months, infected with a flesh eating bacteria, a drug resistant, super strain of mrsa. I don’t know if it is going to eat off his leg or kill him. His roommate is in fact dying (COPD). To watch a man die by […]
IF THERE WERE ONLY ONE CHOICE It is a great fortune to have the blessing of employment, furthered still by passion, and then love. I am absolutely in love with the creation of my own success, which is not an equal right, or liberty. It is a choice; best fueled by belief, the belief in […]
“Did you write about our day?” he asked. I told him that I hadn’t, but that I had thought about it. The tide of my memory lapped at the detail of water at mooring. He had asked me to describe it as we pulled into port. I found my mind grasping, near empty, like lungs […]
Tat2lover56 39 / M / Straight / Single Tacoma, Washington Online dating is at the very least, interesting. The following is in response to my dating profile. I did alter the author’s name & username in respect to privacy. “Okay. First of all, I read your profile several times — not because I am slow or lack. intellect,’but because it was/ is […]
I bought a bikini yesterday, with strings and such. I feel naked in it, because I am far from comfortable with my body, even after busting my ass in the gym nearly every day for two years. It doesn’t matter what other people think. In fact, at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter […]
Written by: Amber Garibay I must have been looking pretty damn fine last night when I walked into Pint’s and Quarts, because heads started turning before I even made it in the door. There were three of them standing out on the walk, all turning at once to my attention, “It’s dead in there..” one […]
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The text on yellow paper are the notes I took while sitting in the Thurston County Courthouse my first day in court. April 16, 2013. Yes, I know, they are riddled with spelling and punctuation errors. They are notes. Make note. I don’t like looking stupid, which I often am. There is this […]
Why do things have to be so f*cking complicated? I just don’t understand. People keep telling me that men are simple, that their minds are not as complex as women. My favorite is when I hear, “You know how guys are…” Yes, I do know how guys are. I have known a lot of great […]
“There may be little left to save, That doesn’t matter. There may be little left to steal, That doesn’t matter. Nothing matters here, Nothing makes sense. Because the neighborhood at Maple and Washington Has gone mad…..” Rick, I felt like pretty woman standing in “The Mattress Ranch” with you, while […]
