Head and the Heart

I texted you when I decided that we had to be over.  I texted you because I knew if I called, you would change my mind because I love you.  […]

Grey Matter

At my high school graduation our history teacher said, “You Simmons sisters, you have to speak up.  You have a lot to say.  You have to say it.”  Later I […]

Dancing in Coffee Shops

I sat at the bar in Hawk and Pony on Telegraph.  I liked sitting at this bar, because I got to watch the staff interact.  They were all artist, hipster […]

Fight or Flight

In my interview they told me that they had read my blog.  At this I cringed.  This meant they knew.  They knew I was searching.  They knew I was just […]

I killed a Raccoon

I had a dream about you last night.   I thought I was finished thinking about you.  I do a really good job of blocking you out during the day.  […]

A kiss goodnight

I started shaving my armpits and legs again.  For a while it felt like I was the kind of person who didn’t shave their armpits or legs.  But then I […]

Kitty love

I stared at Rue the cat while writing lots of pages.  She lay next to me on top of my previous drafts.  I stared at her calico fur and the […]

Artichoke Hearts

I played with the two tabs I had broken off the top of my two modern times beer cans.  I was feeling drunk and found words flowing from my lips […]

Goldielocks Areolas

My breasts are beautiful.  I have been told as much.  They have been defined by the men I have slept with.  They are perky and my areolas are not too […]

Fingerprints

I was bored.  I was really bored.  I was numb.  My heart had put a wall up around it and refused to feel feelings and I was going through the […]

A Cabin and Some Land

I sat at the kitchen counter.  It is the counter I sit at when I visit my parents for dinner.  I sit there and talk to my mom while she […]

Movies with a Strong Female Lead

You know when you get up in the morning and everything feels like a movie?  Not the kind of movie where the woman finds a man who will rescue her […]

Dancing in the kitchen

Typing these words is like pulling teeth.  I have no stories to tell.  They have all spilled out of me.  They are all on paper somewhere.  i need to make […]

Post MFA Dreams

Last night I had a dream.  My professor from my MFA program was there, along with some of my peers.  We were eating dinner and drinking alcohol.  My professor, who […]

Time in Target

I bought a new notebook from Target.  It is a thick notebook and when I picked it off the shelf, the blank pages gave me a shiver down my spine.  […]

Hello Again. I’ve Missed You.

Blogging has not been my top priority lately.  It is funny the way things change when you start graduate school.  I have found myself amidst the chaos of an MFA […]