Category: Solitude

  • nice guysknow a kind wordplus an easy smile are the best luresto snare an unsuspecting heartso simple to kill them with attentionthey were all easy girls once no more bullseye on their backsj. could pick them out of a crowd tooand she warned the neighbor about m.sometimes the wrong boy is the safe choicebut a…

  • Oh my gosh! Remember my question last Tuesday? "You don't even play the game, do you?" And how you shook your head with a wide-eyed look and mouthed the word No? Scouts were on the lookout all along. The noticers noticed who showed up. Another way to put this? You are having your Tower Moment,…

  • What should Alejandra's reaction be when she is told by a sleepy colleague to "chill and just roll with it?" Smile and say: "Yeah, you're right." Know that Sonny means well as he munches those pretty flowers. psssst … The Universe wants you to know the spell you've been under is about to lift. Oh…

  • If someone uses the phrase "safe as houses," think twice before you accept their invitation to come around for tea. Houses are portals to places we've never been, and would do well to traverse with care. Is it hospitality or the promise of the unknown that propels us to cross the threshold as we stand…

  • Jessamine got to school early to snatch a desk at the back. Not her preferred seating arrangement, but the boy named Micah would be her object of study for the next hour and not the lesson on Cosecant / Secant / Cotangent Functions Ms. Onoko promised the day before. Micah. The friendly one who everybody…

  • We interact with each other's mask(Parti Town gets brisk business)You only know the me I put onfor everyday wear Meat Is Where the Might IsThe shell is but a calling card 'Round and 'round we've been and never once have we gotten this trick right. Strange emotions and uncomfortable realizations equal the best we can…

  • Karmic Stuff! Low Vibrational Bertha is a collector of friends. Contacts make the man as long as they don't come too close. Madge is a badge of having arrived. Clyde is a member of Bertha's exclusive tribe. Lena is a better post than most against which B can lean. Ask these admirers what it is…

  • This is not our time. At most, we've been around the bend twice. Early days still to be well enough to collaborate. We'll just have to remember our safe word for the next time, and time after that, and one more time again. Each meet-up should prove to be more productive than the last. Even…

  • Madame Malcontent knows it's not wrong to charge cash money for a reading. She draws the line, however, at asking for $$$ in order to teach someone what only intuition and a creative bent can give a gal. As Madame Malcontent likes to say: Some got it. Some don't. Peering through the spyglasswatching the other…

  • I haven't heard anything official. He's just not here.Yeah, umm … there's a funny story about that.Who has the shekels to be zaftig?I can only capture your image during a downpour.What does it mean when people are upside down and objects look just right? More a love bite than a parting shot:The time I've spent…