And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.
She knew the truth of men and women and booze: it rarely ended well for either gender, but it was the women who wound up raped.
Fletcher Free Library. (Supposedly,
When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.
When the sun is strong and the air is warm, however, we shout greetings to one another down the lengths of long driveways and from the windows of our cars as we pass; we hold our heads high as we walk...
She needed water, but it would take a tsunami to avert the hangover that awaited. She needed Advil, but she feared the red pills that she popped like M&M’s at moments like this were distant. They were...
Cerulean.
We always have choices. Isn’t that what Dante teaches us?
Becoming a flight attendant was at once rebellion and escape
Be wary of what I might learn. No. Do you think I should? I don’t know. Maybe, she replied, and in my mind I saw her in her high-backed bar stool at the island in the kitchen where the kids scarfed do...
She closed her eyes and tried desperately to swim through the mist that enveloped her memories. She was near here and then she wasn’t. She was whole and then she was wounded. Forever scarred. And in b...
But if you are a person who needs no one’s approval, you are probably crazy and live alone on an island or the top of a mountain somewhere.
Quid pro quo,
Welcomes seclusion. Not precisely antisocial, but reclusive.
It’s a terrible era when idiots are allowed to govern the blind,
I don’t know, maybe I just wanted to be alone. Maybe I just didn’t want to be social because antisocial people have a whole lot less to lose.
And when something wasn't working, you changed it. Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.
Sometimes you just have to bury the dead and move on.
Read Carlo Levi?
But my biggest worry was that he would