Everybody said I was crazy keepin a handgun under my mattress but who’s laughin now? We live in crazy times, you know. I mean you really just never know. There was that one lady, she took away the rapist’s gun and shot him with it? A story like that sticks with you. So when my husband [...] ...
He intended the ring to be a romantic gesture, but he made the decision hastily, desperately, in a fit of anguish. Overcome with emotion and unwilling to allow one more public tear to fall, he began to feel as if the maple wainscoting of the mortician’s office itself resembled a coffin. So he picked [...] ...
It started here, and I’ve been walking in the subdivision across the street every morning at sunrise ever since. Then this happened, and it caused me to climb out of bed one day and make pizza with my kids and I’ve been slowly transitioning back into mealtime ever since. Then I bought bento boxes for my [...] ...
I'm pretty sure the painting was supposed to be a field of poppies, a simple landscape. Flowers in the foreground, mountains in the distance. I'm sure of it. Maybe the reason I picked it up for $4 in a hand stretched linen frame has to do with the fact that that the poppies look a whole lot like droplets of blood. ...
How to Pull Out of a Slump: It’s probably safe to say things are all fucked up in a lot of places. The world, the country, the state. My house, my head. Everybody has an opinion about what should happen to the world, the country, and the state. It also appears that at least one very [...] ...