Experiences

When looking this evening at my digital calendar for tomorrow, I have come upon a mystery: my calendar informs me that I have VOLLEYBALL tomorrow, from 7-9 pm. No location. No details. No invite from another. No event I haphazardly marked myself as "interested" or "going" on Facebook. Just Volleyball, from 7-9 p.m. No other details. Thing is: I don't play…

The turtles are on the move. This little, muddy, and just-emerged snapper was almost stepped on by some neighbor ladies out for a walk this morning. I was outside on my sunken patio, hidden from view to anyone passing by. I was enjoying a pleasant cup of tea (green, Dragonwell: the only way to go…

There’s a particular and vexing area of my life where I’ve had a contentious relationship with someone. We don’t engage often but when we did, I could feel intense anger and aggression surge into my bloodstream. My experiences with said person had often left me shaken and upset. Understandably. gas on a spark I’ve…

It's 4:20. In the morning. And I'm just coming home from sitting with a crying, intoxicated woman in my car. A stranger, no less You could, of course, tell me it isn’t wise to have strangers in one’s car, especially not at 4:00 in the morning and especially not intoxicated ones, and you probably…

I did something today I've never done before: I walked out of a movie theater. I wasn’t even midway through the movie, and I shoulda walked out much, much earlier but I kept hoping, believing … in mild shock I mean how is it possible for a movie in JK Rowling's world of magic, i.e.,…

There was a time in my life when I found myself in the company of a group of modern-day hippies – Well, truth be told, I’ve been around a lot of modern-day hippies much of my life, and might, to some, be one myself, but this particular group of particular modern-day hippies also had a…

I was planning on paying for my gas with cash. This is not a normal thing for me. I’m a debit card gal all the way. But today and minutes earlier, I'd sat in my car counting my cash on hand: I had five ones, one five, one ten and two twenties. I was ready…

I’ve gone through different periods in my life where the fear and claustrophobia of being in a cave overwhelmed me. It wasn’t just fear around caves, per se, but having to crawl through a small, tight cave opening. From one room to another location. Through a tunnel. On my belly. must ... get ... out I…