friendship | friendship
Nov.29.2011
I’m returning to this site after nearly a half-year off for a sweet relationship that morphed into what we both hope will be a lasting friendship. My prior online dating experience was much fun and very interesting, and I’m hoping this will be too. I’m touched by the way we keep showing up,...
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Nov.27.2011
Three boxes are stacked on the dining room table. Garnet Hill, it seems, has delivered Mere's Christmas present early. The familiar Amazon logo is on the middle box. At the bottom of the pile is the familiar red, white and blue of a large Express Mail package, dented and slightly torn.
I try to...
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Nov.22.2011
That's what my eye doctor said during my visit to her. My vision has gotten a little blurry with age. My grade is now two notches higher than it was just a year ago. She advises that bright light at close range will help ease the strain.
Light is not just a friend for my sight but...
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Nov.18.2011
My daughter pulled out a composition book this afternoon and began chuckling soon after opening it up to read. She shares with me the idea behind the sharing book that she and her friends share among themselves.Three friends who have been separated this year due to their class schedules. The...
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Nov.09.2011
Do you ever catch yourself caught between breaths and waiting for something to happen? For winds to change in directions that fill empty rooms and blow breezes scented with new beginnings … I do. I sit with toes curled beneath soft blankets, feeding on the cold that is nipping at my nose....
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Nov.09.2011
The only reason anyone might want to call past midnight is if they are horny. The smarmy camaraderie of “Oh, I have a 3 am friend” makes me cringe; it has been reduced to a throwaway line. I know it essentially conveys that you can call the person at any time. But is that necessarily true...
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Nov.03.2011
...have more depth than surface. Be an artist rather than appearing to be. So many 'artists' have the right laptop & phone, a shiny website/facebook page etc, they hang with the right people and talk the right kind of talk, but don't work on being rigorous and honest and developing their poetry...
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Oct.28.2011
Dear Pot,
Right away I must beg forgiveness - it seems that we girls have our own versions of Boy Dumb. I'm quite guilty this morning.
Yesterday I shared the trials of my friend Jake, and of how Jake couldn't ask Cindy to join him at the gym. Sounds pretty basic, right?
Let's put a new twist on...
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Oct.25.2011
Please take a moment to read a piece very near and dear to me. It tells the tale of two friends who drift apart and come back together just in time. Thanks to Red Room and Gina for offering me this opportunity.
"I'm not sure why you stopped talking to me. It happened slowly, like rust. There was...
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Sep.23.2011
"Does cancer love or hate you?"
What kind of question is that? Cancer doesn't love or hate anything: it's like a shark, neither good nor bad, just a shark, doing what sharks do. Which is eat anything it can.
Cancer might have consumed comedy writer Will Reiser, had the disease not been detected...
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