I caught her staring at me staring at another woman. She has a brown leather satchel between her wide-spread feet. Black combat boots and black pantyhose that are close to ripping. Short black skirt, a black cardigan draped over her lap, a book on top of that. She is reading it, underlining in pen as…
Tag: slice of life
Yo, Past Michelle
Yo, Past Michelle, Why the fuck did you put this creepy-ass song on this otherwise pleasant and awesome playlist? Every time it comes on it freaks me out and ruins perfectly good moments. Dude, seriously! Frustratedly Yours, Present Michelle
This Week Ten Years Ago
The Week of 3/5/2006 Witty one liner: Why is it when you talk to God you’re a saint, but when you hear God talking to you you’re crazy? Quote of the week: None written down Offbeat oddity (courtesy of the planner): An elephant will extract its own infected tooth using tree branches and sharp rocks…
Dear Life
Dear Life, Please stop “happening,” I need to get a bunch of shit done. Do you know how hard it is to write and commit to your dreams when YOU keep “happening?” Tone down the “happening” please and I will not have to resort to running away screaming to a cave and hermiting for the…
#ExBaristaProblems
Dear World, This is not a post where I bemoan people’s inability to foam my milk properly or how I miss access to free coffee. This is not that post. Coffee shops are warm in the winter and (sometimes) cool in the summer. They are busy and you don’t have to get past a host…
Object of Focus
Anne checked her watched and stifled a growl of frustration. She paced around the kitchen one more time before making her decision and walking up to the bathroom door and hammering on it with one fist. “Come on, Farley!” she hollered through the door. “You have been in there twenty minutes already.” “Bathroom time is…
This Week Ten Years Ago
The Week of 2/5/2006 Witty one liner: I was just sitting there, walking. Quote of the week: “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Offbeat oddity (courtesy of the planner): “Sneaker” was first used to describe a rubber-soled tennis shoe in 1873 Planner quote: “The strength of the team is…
Anxiety, Let’s Talk.
Anxiety, Let’s Talk. I know you stem from a plethora of things rooted in my childhood and adolescence, and even young adulthood, but that’s not really what I want to talk about. I wanted to sit down and talk with you because I hope that once you see how you affect me, you might ease…
Too Cool, But Not Really
He walks on the train, goes straight to the door to the next car, grabs the bar over my head and plants one foot on the door, leaning back on the door in a smooth, practiced move. He has black shiny dress shoes, black pants, and a knee length brown coat. He looks super badass…
Yo! Two glasses of wine!
Yo! Two glasses of wine! I know I am not a karaoke star and that this is not a movie. Stop trying to convince me that the music piping in through my Beats is surround sound to my own personal music video. I will not dance around this subway car to Taylor Swift! I know…
Dear Butt
Dear Butt, I know you think you’re adorable and the center of the universe, but you’re not and you need to stop expanding and making my pants too tight. Also, just because I buy you cute underwear does not mean you are my favorite body part, so stop telling everyone that. My knees are getting…
Chatterbox
Hi Everyone, Yay! This week I will have posted three times instead of just two! I am striving to get back to posting five times a week, but it is harder now that I have burned through my one or two reserve pieces that helped me out when I had an off day and didn’t…
Little Gentian 