Whether due to circumstance or nature, I cannot say for sure, but I am a big believer in ‘traveling light’. I feel better when I shed the extra baggage that I - like you - pick up along the path of life. Material possessions, habits, toxins, emotions - all can become weights that hold us [...]

What Every Woman Should Have and Know
By Maya Angelou
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own
even if she never wants to or needs to…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….
something perfect to wear
if the employer or date of her dreams
wants to see her in an hour…
A WOMAN [...]

I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said, ‘You can’t,’
‘You can never be sure.’
‘You die without knowing,’
‘Whether anything you wrote was any good.’
‘If you have to be sure don’t write.’
– W. S. Merwin

Black tea buoys me
It lifts me through my day
It makes me feel like a hummingbird
Sucking sweet nectar from a bright red flower
Alive and swimming on the rich crest of life.
When my husband makes me a cup of his special brew
And hands it to me,
It’s like he has handed me a rare and prized gift that
I [...]

The following is the series of text messages exchanged last night as I witnessed the once-proud Raiders fall flat on their collective face on national television, where they proceeded to get shut out by the Chargers, losing, jeezuseiytchcryse, 27 to nothing.
7:19 Tracy: Do you think the men in black will be victorious?
7:24 Me: I wish [...]

oh the wonderful flexibility & charm of eggs
with bread
with tortillas
with cheese
with vegetables
you can make a plethora of delicious foods with eggs
some may decry their origin
from an orifice
adjacent to the anus
i say wash it
in hot, soapy water
then enjoy it
cooked, boiled, baked
broke or whole
the egg is a wonderful food
–
the only thing keeping me from being vegan
is that [...]