4 Little Blue Monsters, A Hallow’s Eve Poem

Oh curse the dawn, with itsblack skies and heat-seeking windswhen all else sleeps on this Hallow’s Eveand I stumble madly in the cold,hair wild…

Mini-Respite

What heavy things weigh on my mind at 5:30 in the morning as I roll out of bed to take my newly minted freshman,…

A Hundred Years of Solitude…

Originally published October 19, 2011

…would not be enough, if you were to ask me at the moment.  But that is just this very moment,…

I AM MY MOTHER’S KEEPER

Originally published October 1, 2011

Ever beautiful.

Not in the way that I ever thought I would be – not sandwiched between my mom and my…

Feeling Horribly Optimistic About Life at the Moment

Originally published September 27, 2011

Need I say more?

SILVER LININGS AND POTS OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW

Originally published September 25, 2011

Ok, I will not lie.  I should be studying Mendelian genetics, epistasis and other patterns of genomic inheritance.  I know…

IF YOU LOOK HARD ENOUGH…

Originally published September 14, 2011

You can find beauty in almost everything.  Even those things that seem to have no beauty in them, at all. …

SERENITY

Originally published September 13, 2011

I made a decision this week.  It has been a tough month and a half in all aspects of my…

One Down

Originally published September 12, 2011

Maybe satisfying one OCD will be enough to divert attention from prosthetic leg obsession.

Pray for me.

He’s already seeing better.  The…