I fell asleep easy enough. But, I woke myself up scratching my palm and I thought to myself, “How weird is that? I wake myself up scratching my itchy palm? I wonder if I googled that that somewhere someone claims that means something, sort of like if your ears burn someone is talking about you?” …
In 31 days it will be a year since he’s gone, my father. It makes me shake my head to clear it when I realize that. How could that many days have come and gone? And so much life has already been accounted for that he’s “missed”. Weddings and grandkids setting off on their own …
I notice them. Almost every time. I feel them before I see them. And I start looking in corners. There’s a Velveteen Rabbit in here somewhere. I know that. Because I am one. We Velveteen’s, once we’ve been made free, always want to go back and find the others. When you’re still in your corner, …
I’m sitting here in my big green chair where God holds me close, watching my fake fire glow in my electric heater and unable to get myself to stop crying. Today hit me hard in the heart. I sat close up to a woman tonight I’d never met and she let me into her world, …
I fell asleep this Friday night on my couch with my girl, faithfully choosing to keep me company, laying on the other couch nearby. Couches, in the plural, are nice to have. They’re like rectangle friends scattered throughout the house. I used to have one in my kitchen because I liked the idea of collecting …