I feel like everyone has been there at one time in their life or another…you feel stuck. Life has turned you every way but loose and the dominoes keep falling on top of your head to the point where you just know you have a concussion and need rest. But then, you try to take a break and the guilt starts eating at you. Like you can’t relax because there is too much work to be done. You can catch up on emails or start that DIY project you’ve been meaning to start. There may be a

We’d all gathered there in that two-bedroom apartment. My uncle was lying in bed, scarf on his head to hide the balding. His hair had been a source of pride for him for my entire life, and probably much longer than that. But now, it had thinned andclumped and so, he hid behind a bandana, covers pulled up. He was so skinny lying there, face and hands bloated from steroids, nailed curved and dark. He was him, but he wasn’t. He still had that great smile, even though his sweet t

I haven’t been writing that much lately. I think it is part being tired, part not wanting to use my brain, part the world being a mess. It’s probably a conglomeration of many things, but the result is that my creativity has really been put aside. More like stuffed into a trunk and thrown into my crawl space, if I am being honest. Of course, this isn’t the first time I have done this and I doubt that it will be the last, but I made the conscious decision to stop guilt tripping

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