Category Archives: Big Dreams
New York City. She’s a rare thing.
The morning you move to New York City will be as distinct as the day when birds first learned it was in their blood to sing. Oh, can you imagine what happened in the trees that day? You’ll delight in … Continue reading
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Lady Gaga, she was born this way. Me? I was born for this.
If you’ve ever felt the love of another deeply, on the brink of fiercely, then I know you’ll pick up writing easily. Easy like the slow ease that slipped through the cracks in the doorway to the bathroom as you … Continue reading
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Do you have the chalk wedged in your waistband for the day the rain showers come?
Some sort of shove from the Divine lured me to sprint down to the corner store and purchase a pail of chalk before beginning the climb. An untouchable feeling webbed in my stomach as I pulled a stick of white … Continue reading
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And then a ballerina emerges from the crowd. Tattered shoes. Blistered feet. The Big City lifts her from the waist and she’s up, up, up. Kissing the Sky.
I have high hopes of one day being a car wreck of a romantic. Of one day lending my heart out, as if it were a well-read library book, to someone who would have no choice but to rip the return … Continue reading
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Forget me before nap time. Remember what I want for you when it comes time to dream.
“Just tell me… are you going to do it?” He asks her, “Tell me right now. Just tell me right now, Diana.” Diana, dressed prim in her lavender princess dress, hairspray clutching her curls into perfect spirals from the 7a.m. … Continue reading
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Show me a girl with pencil shavings on her forehead and an imaginary cousin by her side and I’ll show you a fireworks display more smashing than July 4th.
Picture a girl in elementary school, legs as thin and long like two yard sticks holding up a torso, anxiously rubbing pencil shavings onto her forehead in the girls’ bathroom before running out the door to meet her imaginary Italian … Continue reading
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Passion. In Three Parts. Or Puddles. Whichever you prefer.
Part One. The person who came up with the “Someone is Going to Love You Just the Way You Are” pep talk has reasons to thank me. Mammoth reasons to thank me. I am absolutely certain that if she and … Continue reading
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A guru at equipping souls with a Simultaneous Sense of Eating, Praying & Loving, once wrote that we cannot expect to win the lottery if we don’t first buy the ticket.
I spent two years stealing love notes from my brother’s bedroom just to admire the handwriting styles of his girlfriend. I may or may not have contemplated stapling the letters to my trendy Unicorn sweaters of the time and wearing them around with … Continue reading
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And for a short fix of time, he and I were just two children sleeping in your arms, cradled by your transit line.
The lurch of the subway that followed closely after the full stop sent the sleeping child straight into my lap. He did not move. He did not stir. I looked around for a parent to step forward and scoop the … Continue reading
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