I’m not a lucky kind of person.

When I was younger, I used to go to Foxwoods to play BINGO quite often.

I loved the whole experience of it – waiting in line to get my cards, then going over to the two-dollar dobber store and picking out which color I wanted (usually pink or green), and then finding a place to sit in the massive room that had a haze of cigarette smoke hanging above everyone’s head.

My friend(s) and I would set up somewhere and then look around and make fun of all the people who brought entire … Read the rest

“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

I have been feeling awful lately.

Since I had COVID-19 for the third time in December of 2022, my body has not been the same.

I have a running list of symptoms that I’ve been dealing with since then:

• Fatigue
• Brain Fog
• Joint Pain (worse than usual)
• Hot flashes
• Heat intolerance
• Constant dry mouth
• Sleep Apnea
• Hyperparathyroidism
• Iron Deficiency Anemia
• B-12 deficiency
• Neuropathy
• Depression (worse than usual)
• Anxiety (worse than usual)
• Forgetfulness/memory issues
• High blood pressure
• Tachycardia
• swelling in the feet and ankles
• and did I mention the oppressive, crushing, painful, and relentless fatigue?

I just had a nuclear stress … Read the rest

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

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

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