and i falter. how to describe this erratic pulsing behind my right ear? the pain detonates in clusters, punching through me like a boxer....

jasmine’s wild sister: magnetic, daring, just this side of elegant. voluptuous in her fragrance — all salt and musk and honey. queen of...

does it deepen love to know precisely why the heart stirs at the turn of a poem or with each sip of spiced chocolate what good does it do...

i start waxing dangerously philosophical. something magical about how clay softens water. rounds it out, makes it sweeter. glass bears...

“one door closes, and another door opens.” “trust the process.” yada yada yada. i’m so sick of people telling me to look on the bright...

no was my first word, but it was stolen right out of my lips, flung to the bottom of an ocean where it would be swept along like...

sitting on the lanai as the sun begins its downward arc, feeling in command of my life. time oozing like manoa honey. the sun cradled by...

in my next life, i’ll know never to do dinner on the first date moderate means republican and babies on profiles means they want kids...

halfway through this year, the roof of my life came crashing down on me — i had seen the water stains blooming in fits and bursts, the...

life is starting to feel like the hunger games — how bloodthirsty gamemakers shake the earth just to break lulls. i’ve been thinking a...