Introduction: I have a morning routine. Every morning, only a few minutes after waking up, I place a collar on all three cats waiting excitedly at the door. I wait a few moments to build up suspense and then I open the door. What ensues is often the most peaceful or chaotic part of my day. The cats race out like kids catching an ice cream truck. They chase all squirrels in the vicinity up…
The trees in my front yard are my favorite things about my home. There are five of them. There is a large Douglas Fir intermingled with a smaller coniferous friend, a dogwood that rests just under their canopy, fighting for its share of water and sun, a sugar maple slowly swaying on the other side, and a small tree of which I know the least about tucked into the very back corner of the yard,…
Soft blue skies Helium balloons float up away Broad daylight But we’re sunflowers in the rain. My mama said they used to be white pyramids. – Helium, Glass Animals As I stared up at the drab hospital ceiling, that sweet melodic verse played on repeat in my head. Dave’s iconic falsetto still echoes in the back of my head about a hundred times a day every day. My mama said they used to be white…
Hello all! Welcome back to my Writing Parking Lot. If I am remembering correctly, it has been roughly ten months since I’ve last posted on my blog or socialized this on social media. To put it in perspective, we were still going to bars and restaurants, traveling, and enjoying our life as we stood next to strangers in crowded concert halls… Talk about shit marketing skills on my end, right? That’s alright though, this website…
I’m in the process of typing up my old travel essays about the Oceans to Outback trip in Australia that I took. The writing is horrible and I cringe almost every other sentence. I mean I look back at these wondrous places of natural beauty and all I say is “it was fun.” or “it was nice.” It has also become a habit for me to correct even those small and minute grammatical and punctuation…
There really isn’t a chapter on this, this is just a blog post. I just felt like being dramatic. I started this website for the sole reason being that I wanted a parking lot where I could put all of my writing. I figured that this is also the most convenient way of sharing it with the world. My biggest fear for this website is that people will think it’s a blog. I don’t want to have a blog,…