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nothing is forever, not even close

February 9, 2025 / Cheney / 0 Comments

“All I’ve ever wanted is to be a writer” is a sentence I’m sure I and many other writers have uttered throughout life, and it’s true but also not true.

There was a time in childhood when I watched the movie SpaceCamp over and over and over again and then was taken to the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. where I doubled down on my dream.

I took home posters of the Milky Way and a Space Shuttle pointing at the sky, its bottom engulfed in the flames from the rockets about to take them away.

I … Read the rest

The best thing I’ve ever found

February 6, 2025 / Cheney / 0 Comments

WordPress asks today:

The most important invention in your lifetime is…

and a shrill voice in my mind screams:

“Modern indoor plumbing!”

but then I considered, well, that wasn’t invented in my lifetime.

I am lucky enough to have been able to enjoy cleaning my butt with toilet paper and flushing it away my whole life, so that doesn’t count.

Well, the next answer was obvious to me:

The Internet.

I have a horrible memory.

I don’t remember core moments of my life like a normal person does.

I don’t remember the first time I ever got my period, I … Read the rest

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every day will eventually end

February 4, 2025 / Cheney / 0 Comments

When I met Bobby I had been single for a long time.

I hadn’t gone on a date in about four years, and I had lost all confidence in myself, both emotionally and physically.

Every once in a while, usually when we’re fighting, he brings up the fact that when we met, I was doing intense EMDR therapy to, as he says, “get over” my ex.

It’s not getting over my exes that is the problem – they’re all gone for a reason.

Getting over the way things had ended was the issue.

I was stunned by it; it was … Read the rest

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sightseeing

November 20, 2024 / Cheney / 0 Comments

No more traveling
alone to New York City,
or sad rides on trains.
No more being the only
unpartnered one on holidays,
no more soul-aching
single Christmas nights.
No more tears,
no more talking to myself.
I have a sidekick
for sightseeing now,
and I never want to let him go.

"Own your words" spelled out in scrabble tiles on a pink background

just be honest

October 22, 2024 / Cheney / 0 Comments

all I ever wanted
all I ever needed
all I ever asked for
was your love,
your time,
and your respect

what I really needed
(what I still need)
is to believe every word
that falls from the only lips
I want to kiss
for the rest of my life

I need that
I deserve that
I hope I get that