A Lavender-Lemon Cake
Wake up and set the coffee, scoop it out slowly, making sure to not spill the grounds. The pot always fills with steam before it fills with coffee, because the […]
Wake up and set the coffee, scoop it out slowly, making sure to not spill the grounds. The pot always fills with steam before it fills with coffee, because the […]
Most things come easily to me, things you wouldn’t expect from a boy with no discernible talent. Things like baseball, calculus, forgiveness never came easy to me, but love did. […]
I’ve gotten used to microwaving water for tea and never having to tell a single person what I’m thinking. I slept for fifteen hours yesterday, my body exhausted from the […]
I was five when I told my first lie. We lived in Kentucky then. In a little ranch house with not enough room. My sister slept in the laundry room, […]
It was hard to find a comfortable position. I’m long-limbed and can never stay still for long. I wrapped my body around an old leather jacket and road the north-bound […]
I still have the same dream as when I was fourteen. I’m flying in a plane and it is raining outside, I stare lazily like a cat. We’re heading to […]
I have met a hundred people this week and cannot remember anyone’s name. I gave thirty-eight cents to a homeless man and didn’t look him in the eyes. I think I […]
I licked my wounds when I was alone. I sat on my bed and listened to the train roaring two blocks from my window. It was so loud, the coffee […]
The anticipation used to kill me, trick me, tease me. Christmas break would start on a day before Christmas Eve and last all the way through to January 3rd. I […]
This all happened before I left for Pennsylvania, before I was reminded of the as it was. Of the constant state of charm and chaos that exists when you visit a […]