Category Archives: Fanciful

40 question FEELINGZ DUMP

Are you reading the online Verily magazine yet? If not–start, yo. 😉 PEER PRESSURE. Lots of good stuff about life and fashion and love. They had this one article with 40 questions to ask yourself about 2015, which I’ll be answering here. Why not? Hop in and answer any in the comments, too. I’m goingContinueContinue reading “40 question FEELINGZ DUMP”

A tiny poem | Love and fingerprints

“I’ll never love another woman like I love you,” he said. But this did not give her pause; for she knew that all along. You never love another person in the same way you have loved someone else. Loves are as unique as fingerprints. The one you dated before? The first one whose hand youContinueContinue reading “A tiny poem | Love and fingerprints”

Her last name was “Happy”

Years ago, when I was in 4-H, there was a woman who would volunteer at the weekend events we would sometimes attend. We would attend maybe once or twice a year–doing our artsy thang in the love that is northern Michigan. This woman was a senior citizen; and she shared a first-name with my motherContinueContinue reading “Her last name was “Happy””

So this is Monday

There are a few men who permanently sleep on the streets by the church where I work in Detroit. Most of them are at different stages of mental un-soundness; whether they are unstable from birth defect, personal trauma (may it be known–many of the street-folk once served in our military. Disheartening.), substance abuse…or any mixtureContinueContinue reading “So this is Monday”

Color THIS coloring “contest”

I used to work with this one guy at my old job who is fun and ultra-talented and everything else. One day I stopped by his desk and he wasn’t there, so I left him a sketch of a particular saint whose feast day it was that day. It was a cartoon version, cute butContinueContinue reading “Color THIS coloring “contest””

These beautiful moments

On Thursday, in the remaining moments of my lunch break, I walked up and around the city streets–enjoying the warming sunlight. I turned a corner and I heard music, live music, the kind played by a person looking for change on the corner. This wasn’t your standard “play a few recognizable notes, move on toContinueContinue reading “These beautiful moments”

A short, spooky Halloween story!

That last weekend, when I was driving out to the farmhouse, something 100% true and 72% spooky/ 18% funny happened to me AND IT’S HALLOWEEN SO HERE WE GO. I left my office after work, ready to head out. I drove east for a bit, stopping at a store off of the highway to grabContinueContinue reading “A short, spooky Halloween story!”