Tag: life (Page 2 of 4)

any day with you, babe

February 5, 2025 / Cheney / 0 Comments

When I was younger, there is no doubt that my most ideal day, beginning to end, would be one spent in New York City.

I might even want to spend that day there alone, because I did that once, I went for three days and two nights alone, and it was the best trip to the city I can remember.

I took the train, a little over two hours from New Haven to Grand Central, and I sat writing in my journal and listening to music.

But the people around me didn’t know that part of that time I wasn’t … Read the rest

I’m Not Ready to Give Up

January 24, 2025 / Cheney / 0 Comments

_{If you’d like, you can also read this for free on Medium.}

I don’t know what to do with myself right now.

Just over a year ago, I started work at a wonderful place with wonderful people, and over 90% of the time I can confidently say that I love my job, and being there makes me happy.

That is a true statement.

For the entirety of my life since I grasped the understanding as a child that one day I would have to work at a job to have money to live, I knew that the only job … Read the rest

The plane ticket would be $347, one way
The bedroom would be small and uncomfortable
The significant other would be annoying
There may be the possibility of
encountering wild boar, again.

But I miss you
and (if I could)
I’d pay any price
to see your smile
to hear your laugh
and just be with you
doing absolutely nothing
just like those days we always used to love.

Inspired by the Writer’s Write October prompts | photo by me

Woman in bikini running alone on the sandy beach

let me go

October 15, 2024 / Cheney / 0 Comments

If I could do just one thing –
if someone asked me:

“What would you do
if you could do anything?”

I’d run.

I’d pack a light bag and run.

I would leave work one day
and I just wouldn’t go home.

Instead, I’d drive to an airport,
pick a place with palm trees and sun,
and I would run.

I would disappear, poof!
Like magic, she’s there one moment
and she’s gone the next.

I want to go
where no one will ever find me.

I want to run off into the sunset
and never be seen or heard … Read the rest

self-pity serenade

October 12, 2024 / Cheney / 0 Comments

This is not the club
I ever wanted to belong to.

I have nothing against
childless cat ladies; sometimes
I think they’re the lucky ones
if all they have to be
responsible for in life
is their feline friends.

I never wanted to be
in the single mom club
or the forever a fat girl club
or “the ones with serious daddy issues” club.

I didn’t sign up to be
stuck living this life
so afraid I’ll die
from the loneliness,
from the acute and
stinging lack of companionship.

Precious few humans
will be able to die saying
they got … Read the rest