Invisible baggage.

It was Friday. I was looking forward to a weekend with my friend and his family. I arrived at work that morning, fully ready to proceed on with what all three of us acknowledge is a kind of first hour of partial awakening. It takes us all about an hour to really wake up, and [...]

Early morning battle.

This morning, sometime around 1:30 a.m., I awoke to the peculiar sounds of a yowling tom cat. Blearily I pushed my pillow aside and tried to discern whether or not I was dreaming or if, indeed, somewhere just outside my bedroom window, a cat was forlornly meowing. In that ever-happy land between awake and asleep, [...]

Impatiens.

With careful research into the needs and requirements of the plant, including culling information from the tag that came with it as well as research online, I successfully rendered the plant dead. This plant. It was the most beautiful plant I’d ever seen. I got it on a weekend when my parents were up to [...]