The white Christmas lights that I keep up year round, just because their light makes me happy, are glowing warm tonight in my otherwise dark kitchen. It’s been raining for hours. The trees outside look sad because they don’t have their leaves yet, but I know growth is happening on the inside of them. He …
Sometimes, it’s that sense of isolation that threatens to take us down; take me out. Broad daylight’s bad enough but in the middle of the night; that’s the killer. So He wakes me up and I find myself reaching for my headphones, taking care to put the left earpiece in my left ear, because I …
My friend, one of them, is like a sneeze. Whenever I call her, or she calls me, we get in the ring and box out what’s rolling around in our spirits together. And the calls always come in threes; sneeze, sneeze, ahCHOO; because we sift through and let settle what we lay on the line …
In a week’s time I’ve had three different people tell me they struggled with jealous feelings towards me. That sounds like I’m gloating. I’m not. It makes me want to grab all the couch cushions and build a fort around myself in a corner somewhere. I hear sounds, all modern dance and music, disonant and …
He is black, 19, homeless. I encountered him one day recently in a park in downtown Cincinnati when a group of my friends, and I, couldn’t get the sound of the cold wind out of our ears and grabbed what we had and went. The first thing he asked for from us, in fact, the …