for about 10 years, i've studied astrology from time to time--specifically, the effect of one's moon sign on his/her personality, and also, astro-compatibility. once i found out there was more to astrology than the consistently useless horoscopes found in the "red book" (my hometown's weekly circular printed on newsprint that advertised pork rib specials, african [...]
Month: April 2009
you have to bury things deeper if you want them to stay put
if i don't write what i know to be true, experienced, wondered, lusted after, lost and/or forgotten, i won't (don't) sleep right. if i don't write love poems to men i love, my sentiments shrivel and die. when i truly dislike someone, i ignore them. squeeze my eyes shut tight until they leave my life, [...]
old truths
i blog.i write shit floating around in my skull when i can't hold any more or when i feel a good line or 7 floating around or when i think about the fact that i am a writer who has not published any of my real shit and it gets harder and harder (well, not [...]
upstairs
i was sitting here thinking about nice ways (oh, how pervasive the truth is! bursting right into the middle of my lie)-- i was sitting here thinking of accurate ways to describe the potentially indescribable effect of the noises above my head. i am in my apartment; there is a child upstairs running around in [...]
betwixt
enough time goes by, and i don't even feel mad anymore. i mean...there are occasional flare-ups. international or historical injustice is revealed; the more details, the larger the context of the story, the greater the tragedy. and the more i hear such stories, the more i know, i ain't seen nothing yet. and then, of [...]
egos about
there are benefits to knowing what something means without having it spelled out for you. and it's nice being able to accurately predict behaviors and responses based on personal experience, and on having interacted with a multiplicity of personalities that essentially amount to the same basic human characteristics...it's nice knowing yourself too--your threshold of emotions, [...]
Nonfiction Woman 