It's getting close now, this escape to the north. And the timing will be perfect. The heat of July, the heat of summer, will finally return to Texas and I will be standing at the edge of a once vast glacier and thinking I need blue like that in my life...blue water, blue skies, blue …
a rube
I don't know why I played that card. Jealousy as it is called by some. I’ll call it flagrant flirting to be on the safe side of any emotional connection. It comes from knowing just enough to know I don't know anything...in a favorite book let’s say where words are placed strategically on a page. …
Protected: mistaken identity
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I didn't win the lottery on Wen night but the good news is no one else did either.
Here's me. It's 3:00am. I am awake though I won't say wide awake, merely awake in the sense that my eyes are open and I am thinking. And I smell of smoke and other things that trespassed without my permission. I could be sleeping. I could be drowning in dreams but I'll hardly remember anyway. …
like falling in love
I've been thinking about all the things that feel just like falling in love. The things that really fulfill me in ways that no one person ever will or should. The little boy, holding my finger tightly and twirling in circles around and around. His sweet, innocent smile; My dog, Bailey, when he arches one …
Dixie's Road Trip 