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Monthly Archives: July 2009

What Does It Take?

My dad said it was a sun­set cruise so nat­u­rally to me that meant romance. And romance means a sexy black dress with match­ing ear­rings and cute hair. It was seri­ously the first time I had done my hair the entire week and that, at the end of the day, proved to be absolutely point­less. We started board­ing [...]
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Imagination At Work

As a lit­tle kid I used to play with sticks and pre­tend that they were swords. I dug holes in the ground hop­ing to find a trea­sure of great antiq­uity. There were no lim­its to my imag­i­na­tion because I had no bound­aries. As I got older cer­tain bound­aries, rules and restric­tions were placed upon me and my imag­i­na­tion was put through [...]
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The Loneliest Number

There are 32 of us — 15 boys and 17 girls. The ages range from late fifties all the way down to 1 year old. We have one woman who is preg­nant. And of course, we have one Ukrain­ian. Each one of us came with our own story, our own expec­ta­tions, and our own needs for [...]
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The Florida Coast

We left St. Louis as the sky was full of stars and the moon was shin­ing bright. Our car­a­van was four deep as we made the trek from Mis­souri down to Florida. One of the pas­sen­gers rid­ing with us is preg­nant so we had to stop more fre­quently which was kind of nice. Being in [...]
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