Anticipating goodbye

“Please save this for me. I’ll come back for you, love, I promise to. Please save this for me for until I return my love will burn, and my heart will stay.” -Ludo, Please
The date of my departure is approaching. The months have flown by. The weekends were few and busy. The weeks remaining turned [...]

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The journey of a day

{Fiction or non-fiction? Perhaps a bit of both dangerously intermingled into one story that’s mostly almost about me. Take it with a grain of salt, whatever that really means.}
She worshiped the glowing screen, petitioning it for the fellowship she desperately desired. “Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life…” Yes, yes, [...]

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Building a dam- a work in progress

“Any control I thought I had just slips right through my hands while my ever-present conscience shakes its head and reprimands me. Then and there I confess- I’ll blame all this on my selfishness.” -Relient K, When I Go Down

It’s one of those days- I can’t find words for the feeling that’s snuck up on [...]

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Short story from Peace Park

{The following is a story I wrote in my notebook today while sitting in the park in between classes. I’d seen this guy with his fat little dachshund around downtown twice in 24 hours, and then they walked past me in the park. They seemed aimless, so I decided to give them a story.}
He had [...]

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For Our Anniversary

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day’s most quiet need; by sun and candle-light. ~Elizabeth Barrett [...]

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Columbia, Casablanca, and class

**WARNING- If you’ve never seen Casablanca and don’t want to know the end, don’t read this. (Nothing’s spoiled til after the page break) You’ve been warned.
I’ve been back in Columbia for six days now and am settling back into life as I know it.  It started out rather lonely as Meredith was still in Thailand, [...]

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Singin’ (and hiking) in the Rain

Today was wonderful- exactly what a vacation day should be.
St. Peters is unseasonably warm for a few days, so Michael and I were itching to do some hiking. Last night we agreed to rendezvous at his parents’ house in Defiance at 10:30 today to hit Klondike Park. Of course, it decided to rain today, but [...]

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So this is Christmas

“I hate Christmas.”
That’s what I told my mom a few days ago. We were driving home from a long day of hectic last-minute Christmas shopping, and a particularly annoying cheesy commercialized Christmas song had just come on the radio. “That’s sad,” my mom said.
A lot of people would cringe at such a statement, but I [...]

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Damsel in distress? More like Eowyn, give me a sword!

“Gotta find me a future, get out of  my way. I want it all. I want it all. I want it all. And I want it now! …It ain’t much I’m asking, if you want the truth. Here’s to the future, hear the cry of youth.” -Queen, I Want It All
Thanks for the battle cry, [...]

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On Love

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it’s what you are expected to give–which is everything.” -Anon
A million words could be said on love, and it wouldn’t scratch the surface. Love is the most complex and yet most basic of human emotions. So many different things are interrelated to love, [...]

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