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val to the gal commented on the post, adopt 1 year, 3 months ago
an attitude is what i usually here. you’re adopting an attitude. well, no actually. my attitude is a result of true emotions, not something i am taking in from some outside source. i own my ‘tude. it’s […]
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val to the gal commented on the post, walls 1 year, 3 months ago
must have windows or i don’t like them. brick in theory is pretty, but if you’ve got to break through walls, kind of rough against the skin. if there are walls, they better have a good reason for being there. wide […]
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val to the gal wrote about the word mint 1 year, 12 months ago
chocolate chip mint. just like that, i’m back in chicago at baskin robbins 31 flavors, back when they mentioned exactly how many. it was my favorite, the only one i ever ordered. somewhere along the line i stopped caring about cones and went to cups. that must have been when i officially became an adult.
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val to the gal wrote about the word booth 1 year, 12 months ago
love the booth, yearn for the big, semi-circle, plasticky, glittery, red booth that wipes the maple syrup that dripped from your stack o’ pancakes, right off. yummy booth breakfast. nothing quite like it.
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val to the gal wrote about the word domestic 2 years ago
why is that a bad word? i don’t know if it’s the dome or the mestic that messes me up. the word makes me feel boxed in and singular. like if you’re domestic you can’t also be worldly. one or the other. which is it gonna be?
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val to the gal wrote about the word wasteland 2 years ago
how could it be wasted land with all that stuff piled up everywhere. it’s like someone rushed to fill it so it wouldn’t disappear. the memories of better times could stay living in the debris. why cover land you’re trying to remember? where do the sands of time scatter?
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val to the gal wrote about the word connected 2 years, 1 month ago
i love being connected. sometimes i yearn to be connected to every little thing possible. my dog, the flowers in the vase on my dining room table, hell, even the table itself. i think of things having life and imagine we converse about the universe.
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val to the gal commented on the blog post ragged 2 years, 4 months ago
my hangnails is ragged. it’s annoying and i hate the fact that it’s there and it bugs me and i can’t do anything about it. eesh. personal hygiene fail! that’s all i got for ragged. i can’t get my mind off of it. sad.
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val to the gal commented on the blog post support 2 years, 4 months ago
support? i never liked that word. always felt like i needed scaffolding. i was a rickety old shed who couldn’t stand the weather alone. how about foundation. i definitely need that.
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val to the gal wrote about the word: discover 2 years, 4 months ago
Only to discover she wasn’t my mom at all. how could this be? we had the same front teeth. she said so herself. who was she? why did she pretend for so long? and why did i have to find out that crazy day in the delivery room with my feet in the air?
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val to the gal wrote about the word: paperclips 2 years, 5 months ago
i remember in design class when mrs amos pointed out the brilliance of this simple item. the beauty of industrial design! a nameless designer makes history.
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val to the gal wrote about the word: optimism 2 years, 5 months ago
is something that i try to tap into every day, although i put so many rules on it. like don’t be overly, and be realistic and it’s hard to dig down deep sometimes and find it when everything around you is conspiring otherwise. but i have it, it’s there.
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val to the gal wrote about the word: typewriter 2 years, 5 months ago
i loved watching my dad type on his old typewriter. it was a special one, now that i think about it. he felt proud to tap away on it. like his words deserved the best vehicle possible. i love my dad. he taught me so much.
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val to the gal wrote about the word: boa 2 years, 5 months ago
he wrapped himself around my neck like a feather boa. i wasn’t scared. we’d made friends at the pet store and he made me feel safe, strangely. protecting my neck like that. gently… softly.
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val to the gal wrote about the word: stick 2 years, 5 months ago
sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me. i tried to believe that, as i shouted it down to the bully calling me names. but i thought words, sticks and stones all hurt when they were used to hurt.
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val to the gal wrote about the word: wrong 2 years, 5 months ago
If your marriage doesn’t work out, was it wrong in the first place? How do you go back to the beginning and try to unravel how it got, so, wrong. Did it slip in halfway through, or was the seed planted when you first said ‘yes’?
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val to the gal wrote about the word: stamps 2 years, 5 months ago
he had so many stamps on his passport, it made me excited. well, was it excitement? or did it make me uneasy?
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val to the gal wrote about the word: immense 2 years, 5 months ago
………………. it was…………..so. heavy. i could, i couldn’t………… even……… breeeeeeeeeeeathe. the cloud was full of rain.
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val to the gal wrote about the word: believer 2 years, 5 months ago
True believer. What other kind can there be? Do you have any idea how many beliefs you have stuffed in your head? Do you know where they came from? If you really believe them? Maybe someone else put them there, and you’ve been carrying them around all this time. Like someone elses’ lunch bag.
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val to the gal wrote about the word: willow 2 years, 5 months ago
i always loved willow trees. they seemed like a living coccoon when you sat under them. like quiet protection. but then people started referring to them as sad, and ever since i no longer have my simple joy about them.
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