October 9th And Stuff

as written October 10, 2010 I’ve been in my heart. Cutting off my head. Don’t want to think. To bring “think” into the thick mix. Feeling isn’t so scary down here in this beating organ, because it is quiet and devoid of any annoying and incessant chatter. But here, right now, my heart is also not all [...]

Dukes Of Hazzard: Dena Style

as written May 20, 2010 After the sublimity of this, what ensued was full-on Dukes of Hazzard: Dena style. Emily was following Dena, and I was following Emily. Around the second curve by the school – Dena decided not to turn. Basically, she Dukes of Hazzard’s it three feet off the embankment, plows straight between [...]

Fairy Tale That Should

as read April 4, 2010 This is the fairy tale that should have been read to us when we were little: Once upon a time, in a land far away, a beautiful, independent, self-assured princess happened upon a frog as she sat contemplating ecological issues on the shores of an unpolluted pong in a verdant [...]

Taming The Catapult

as written January 19, 2010 What I realized about Brent’s love – feeling it lately; is all these good memories of our love, how much he loved me – are resurfacing, re-emerging through the thick smoke. The truth of what was, is still the truth today – through all the disease, betrayal, and loss. He [...]

Concernicus

as written January 5, 2010 Monica: Why are we humans so fucking impatient? I don’t understand that one yet. Adam: Because we feel finite. Monica: And why do we feel finite, when everything around us bespeaks infinite. It seems contraditctory to go against our nature, and yet we do constantly. Adam: Well that is only some of our perspective. [...]

Knees of Kolob

as written April 1, 2009 This past weekend, Adam and I took our first road trip. On the list: St. George, Zions National Park, Snow Canyon State Park, and Kolob Canyons. We did a lot of hiking. A lot of driving – seeing as some convention was in town and not ONE hotel room was [...]

Howdy Ho!

as written March 14, 2009. The awesomeness of laughing, possible even in the early hours of the morning. 8:43am Monica: Hi. Adam: Hello hot stuff. Monica: Bag me up and take me home. I’m ready to go. Adam: I was ready 5 minutes ago. Let’s fake the plague. Monica: LOL. Right ON. Awesome. I’m in. [...]

I Be Trippin’

as written February 21, 2009 Being around drugs of all kinds, I am quite familiar with the symptoms, behaviors, and responses from the body. But this, THIS? The natural, fall-in-love kind of high, is fucking incredible. I have fallen in love before, more than once. But I am starting to understand that the more heart-work [...]

We Now Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Life

as written February 6, 2009 It was May, 2008 when Adam came in the office to interview for a job. He walked around the corner of the cubicle as I was walking from the opposite direction, looking down at the papers in my hand – my gaze travelled swiftly over his sun-darkened skin, gray suit [...]

State Radio Sleepovers

as written February 1, 2009 Remarkable turn of events with Adam: Went to a State Radio concert with him and a bunch of work people, his friends, and his mother who is in town visiting (a lovely, sweet talking southern woman who told me that the first six months after being divorced granted me the [...]

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