the heel press

You know you miss the Rio Grande Valley when you can't even stand it anymore and you break down and start downloa...

  As I wait on Springfield, MO’s last stoplight to launch me into the newest chapter of my life, I look ...

I was almost sober then, sitting inside a subway train as it hissed to another stop. I wobbled on my seat as it halte...

Part I: Day of Surgery It was a Thursday afternoon, dark and cloudy. I sat in the reclining office chair, waiting...

It is cold. The rain has let up but there's still a chill in the air as spring lazily scratches his ass an...

            I’m a woman of meaning, searching for s...

            I see a young man sitting in a room by himself....

"Did you know--" I love the way Jan says those three words: each one of them perfectly pronounced and fle...

I am recently returned from a five-day trip to LA where, against common sense and the better advice of friends, I met...

When you're a kid, cartoon shows give this impression that the rooster crows once as the sun rises like some kind o...

  I sat in the backseat of a black 1999 Volkswagen Golf, squished between my mother, aunt and sister. It w...

It was a lovely evening. The stars were out, a warm breeze ran through the streets, and the pale moonlight made sure ...

Our love is alive, adaptive in its element, constant in its existence. We, a...

Written mid-flight—just before midnight—in transit to the Philippines, sometime during the obfuscated ...

Honest to God, I really had it for a second. I knew every inch of the stage. At 6:30 that morning, I tiptoed down ...

I could tell you about the summer, the days spent laying out on a towel on the topside of a pontoon boat, playing e...

    The sky looks like it’s barely holding back the rain. I can’t help eyeing it with mis...

"You went to school to study media manipulation?" a Berkeley, CA bum once barked after hearing I was a ma...

I could feel the tears dripping from my eyes Someone is gone. People talked of her struggle. But that girl was scare...

Lost - irrevocably and unequivocally. And so god damn lonely. If my life was a movie, this is where they&rsqu...