Everything feels old, decrepit, broken

I can't sleep. I'm anxious because I'm getting no sleep, so it's harder to fall asleep. So I do what you're supposed to do, stop checking your phone and get out of bed, but it's 3 am here now and that doesn't help because I have to get up at 6:30. I know I'm going [...]

Childhood Friendships

I envy people who have had a best friend since kindergarten. Having moved around a lot sort of prevented me, I think, from really cementing friendships. I also recall not feeling as though I fit in with kids when I was in my elementary school years, all the way through high school really. I wasn't [...]

Morning Musings

  I'm reading the diaries of Sylvia Plath on a lake, quiet, with history and tension at my back. But for whatever reason this morning it is not stealing my peace. A flesh reminder of one of my mortal wounds does not intimidate, when previously just thoughts would torment me. I may owe this grace [...]