Blank Spaces and Untrodden Snow

You want to know what makes me nervous? Nothing. Stretches of nothing make me nervous. The great plains with their endless horizons. A fresh journal. A blank canvas. A day with no urgent plans. A new, untarnished year. For most of my existence I pictured my life as a book that was being written as…

Some Kind of Love

I get it. You love him. He’s your whole world. You don’t even know what you would do without him; him, with his confidence and successes and experience and smarts and level-headedness. You are, after all, flighty; overemotional at best, a bit naive; flawed, really, and so lucky that he loves you and takes care…

Of the Stars

You are made of the stuff of the stars, my dear; Of the stuff of eternity. You are born of the ages

Nightmare Skies

I have lived my worst nightmare  more than once.  It’s just as bad as it sounds, and not.  Anticipation holds more fear; fear holds more pain, and pain more grief, than the nightmares themselves.  Even nightmare skies hold stars.