Food, Health, & Me

Five years ago, I lost a lot of weight. I looked better than I did in high school (same size, more muscle) and most of my 20’s. I work in healthcare, and you can imagine that I understand the ramifications of excess weight. I also have an autoimmune thyroid condition and while the medical community [...]

Hundreds of poems, To try to touch, The cold within, And melt it. There is only so much, To give without getting back. Life is here and gone, Let me in, Or let me go… Everything moves on.

Porcelain Mask

Everything is kept secret, Letting nothing out, Under suspicion but unknown, Playing cards close to the chest, Comes second nature, You would be surprised, What a smile hides away, And you think you know the stories, When you hear the ending, But you’ve got it all wrong, And the demons she danced with, And the [...]

Quickly

I walk in the ebony post, Where boulders arise, And cats swing in trees, I am a flounder, Wandering in my own seas, But for you, I come alive, But for you I realize, The sun that sets inside me.

The Last 40 Years

I remember the day Ronald Reagan was shot. I was at my babysitter's house when she started hysterically screaming and crying. She wouldn't let me see the T.V. She called her friends and in Spanish spoke rapidly and hysterically. I remember being glad that the man who liked Jelly Beans lived. Ronald Reagan, in my [...]