Teach me to pray, Oh God. In the quiet of the night, when the world stops moving, teach me to pray. Teach me to pray, when my heart-songs are nestled, the noise of the day can’t be heard anymore. Teach me to pray. Teach me to pray, when my head is silenced, the clanging and rustling […]
Curled over in the darkened night, wolves howling in the distance, a small ember barely seen amidst the blanketed sky, trees thrashing in the wind, rain threatening to put out the fire desperate to be kindled. Alone, is a show on the History Channel. It takes individuals, sets them out on islands in the Pacific Northwest, […]
We almost called the fire department. We didn’t know what else to do. She had been up the there for days. We could barely see her, but her faint cry rang out among the neighboring trees, the branches leaning like a canopy, covering her from the owl, eagles, and hawks that would likely hunt her. She […]
Like a bullet, it flew between my zombie eyes and my computer screen. Mind overloaded, an article overdue and the list of things required to accomplish, a mile high. Waking as if in daze, I find a well-folded paper airplane landing before my face, almost tauntingly still, glaring up at me, from my keyboard. I turn […]
Imagine, a boyfriend (Or girlfriend, if your a guy reading this) who was everything you dreamed of. They were perfect in every way. They were what dreams were made of; beautiful, embodying every trait or gift you desire in a mate. They were smart, capable, beautiful from the top of their head to the tip of […]
“Addicted.” It’s the word a podcast used, one I listened while curling up in my bed late one night. “If you open Facebook before you say ‘hi’ to your family in the morning…addicted.” “If Facebook is the last thing you read at night….addicted.” “If you even sometimes wake in the middle of the night, just to […]