“A dog comes to you and lives with you in your house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them.” --Mary Oliver
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Everyone Has a Drug
Everybody has their drug whether it’s meth, alcohol, or Jesus. We find a salve that works and bathe in it to varying degrees. For some it’s music. Me, I like words. I swim in the cadence, the meaning, the origin of sounds and letter combinations on the page. I love the varied nuances of words …
Staying Warm
How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn While I certainly don’t pretend to have ever experienced the magnitude of cold that Solzhenitsyn did, I know I really hate being cold. When I’m cold, I can’t do anything. I can only think about the cold. From my icy …
Vanessa and Rodger: Moving Day
“And that's the only thing I need is this. I don't need this or this. Just this ashtray... And this paddle game. - The ashtray and the paddle game and that's all I need... And this remote control. - The ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need... And these …
How I Came to be Here and Why it Matters
"Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own." - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own From the time I was a very young girl I had an ideal of living far away from any …
Regina M. Allen 