Fact:
There are parents in this world who honest-to-goodness think that their teenagers really do need that new car that looks just like the one from that movie.
Fact:
There are children in this world who really believe that the pretty yellow car that just sped by is actually a …
Believe it or not, I’m the level-headed person in this [text] conversation.
The other chick is my sister.
She’s blond.
Obviously.
“I want that tattoo like hayden pantierre? has… to live without regrets in Italian. Vivere senza rimplanti. Look it up. Hers is spelled wrong but that’s the right spelling.”
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The boys have been on my case for the last month about the new Transformers movie…
I was reminded on a daily basis that it was coming… And that I would need to put on my big girl panties and brave the theaters as soon as it did. (For those …
I love tomatoes.
Particularly the kind you find in baskets in little shacks along the country highway…
I was born in a very small hospital in a very small town in Arkansas in 1979. The same very small town in which both my mother and grandmother were also born. I …
When I was seventeen, an eye doctor, who smelled strongly of old spice and good tobacco, told me that I would eventually lose sight in both of my eyes (one already being 95% blind since the early eighties) thanks to macular degeneration.
When I was twenty-three, a specialist, who smelled …
“What’s the fundamental difference between my mother and yours?”
“Humph. Loaded question,” he says.
“Seriously… What is it?”
“I dunno,” he shrugs his shoulders.
“The fundamental difference between our mothers is that my mother knows that the voices in her head are a byproduct of an overactive imagination and a …
Those shot through epidurals in particular.
Even though they NEVER work in my case. (Three out of three deliveries, and I’ve yet to have a chance to be that woman who brags, “I didn’t feel a thing!” Not for a lack of trying, I assure you.)
So maybe I just …
T.S. Elliot loved cats. William Butler Yeats loved cats. Christina Rossetti loved cats. John Keats loved cats. J.R.R. Tolkien loved cats. Mark Twain loved cats. Marianne Moore loved cats. Ernest Hemingway loved cats. Oscar Wilde loved cats. Doris Lessing, Rita Mae Brown, Carolyn Chute, Nuala O’Faolain…
The Pocket Muse,
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