Category Archives: Girl meets Boy

Things That Change.

“Clothes,” I say. “Plans,” he rattles back. “Sheets.” “Lady Gaga’s hairdos.” “And you know that how?” I laugh. “MTV… They showed a documentary on her. It was actually good.” “Surreee…. Ok. The weather.” “Your father… when he is trying to … Continue reading

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Tales of a God Who Knit Her So That She’d Never Need to Knit a Cape.

“You aren’t a superhero,” he said, and lingered in the doorframe for a moment just to see what she would do. To see if she might find the courage, within a chest pumped full with pride, to admit she knew … Continue reading

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The Good Guys: They are out there.

I wrote this post several months back, inspired by the brilliant Cory Copeland and his post “The Good Girls.” Somehow buried in trails of email drafts and word documents, I can finally pin this piece to a home. We’ll stop … Continue reading

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“Evey, Evey, I’m sorry it took so long.”

It took me fourteen years to accept Adam & Eve. Fourteen years not to cringe when someone ushered the first couple in the entire universe, the design model for Brad & Angelina and Elvis & Priscilla, into a conversation. The … Continue reading

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And I am sorry, like Africa. Sorry like Montreal.

“No man is ever gonna chase you through an airport,” my mother told me on my 25th birthday. At the time, it was 25 years that I’d managed to live just fine without you. “He might wish he could chase … Continue reading

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Darling, you are not another to me: received your questions, please see answers attached.

Q1: Will the world stop turning? A1: Absolutely not. In fact, I think she might spin even quicker with one less name to weigh down a diary at night. She’d command the Sun to rise up as always, leading & … Continue reading

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You are my best one… You are my best one…

“They still smell pretty good but I don’t think I am going to keep all of these,” she says. 7:30am on a Sunday morning that calls those without rain boots back into their bed sheets. My eyes have barely unlocked … Continue reading

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I’d bring you sugar. You could borrow flour.

I am willing to travel across the country to show up at your door and tell you this: I’ve got camping gear. Yes, that’s right. Camping Gear. I know I have it somewhere cramped up in the attic. Wedged between … Continue reading

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“Look,” she told my mother. “It’s me and Fred dancing.”

I wonder how we’ll dance. All of the time. I wonder if we’ll fox trot or side step. Shimmy or Waltz. If the music will come endlessly. If the record player will turn. I picture a pearly floored ballroom. Mozart … Continue reading

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I’ll make believe that I would rather attend ten thousand coffee dates instead of ever folding for the one who memorizes my order: Grande Skim Misto with a Shake of Cinnamon.

I expected to walk away from that day with Two Elbows caked in the sheer leftovers of salt water, Two Feet covered in a thick layer of sand, and Two Eyes quite ready to lock up their doors and close … Continue reading

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