Let Me Tell You About My Aunt Norma

I have been lucky, in life, to have met and loved so many different and amazing people. I have also felt the gut-wrenching loss of losing some of them to time, accident and illness. Today I found out that I passed the NREMT-Paramedic Cognitive exam. After 11 months of blowing off friends, relatives, and my … Continue reading Let Me Tell You About My Aunt Norma

Rationality

6 years.... You still strike fear into me so deeply that I want to run and keep running. The distance between us is not enough.... You are the reason I'm afraid to come home. The thief, the conqueror, the beguiling tormentor that you were towards un-innocence and I turn to the reality I have now … Continue reading Rationality

Today

It starts with a hunger, something sweet, salty, voices screaming about calories change to those screaming with craving. From the hunger, comes the ache. Settling into broken bits of bone deteriorating from a disease that will one day cripple, and settles into the healthy, blood rich muscles and the jaw clenches, teeth grind. Dots start … Continue reading Today

Tempering

Tell me before the voices win this battle you tell me I'm better than. Tell me before I decide it is time to let go because I want to, need to, sometimes. Sometimes I need to let it all go and lose it all because I want to. I want to so badly it hurts. … Continue reading Tempering