The Ole' Guys Vs. Girls Argument

So I'm standing in line at the supermarket yesterday to purchase a measly box of couscous, when my eye happened to settle on this.  And as a fully red-blooded female, of course I bought it.  Why?  LOOK at all of the sexiness that is Ryan Reynolds.  That grimace/smirk he's giving...

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Night Sand

Inside our first kissThere was ocean salt.  Biting into my memory.Swirling into never endingNautilus circles.  The sound of your breathSighing in and out.A gradual recession into subconscious. Droplets of sand.The sky above us coloredIn the violet of night.  Balsam Fir Running delicate fingers overMy cheeks, And I prayed to remember the smell.The smell of a thousand Moments of reverie. Lost...

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If It Quacks Like a Duck, It's a Duck

There aren’t many logical reasons for driving around in the dark at three a.m. desperately looking for a quiet pond or lake to dump a duck that can only be classified as utterly demonic.  I blame my mother.    The summer I turned 15 was the kind of summer that made your t-shirt cling...

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A Lonely Wife's Survival Guide

This past weekend marked the one year date that my husband and I closed on our house. This November we will celebrate two years of marriage. And as of December we will have been together for a decade. But out of all of this time together, we have spent practically the past year and a half apart. With the economy in what seems to be a never ending flush down the toilet, he didn’t have much of...

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Sweeping Up Spiders

Arachnophobia is defined as “fear of spiders” or perhaps for those of you who remember, like I do, the title of two rather terrible films. I’ll admit that I fall into the category of thousands who dislike, despise, hate creepy crawlies of the eight-legged variety. I scream, writhe, and all around squirm away from even the smallest of spiders. Granted, I know they have a purpose, but I have never...

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