Some time ago I saw a trailer for a movie called Juno. Halfway through the trailer I knew I wanted to see this movie. Tonight I ventured out in the rain and cold to go see it. Juno is about a sixteen-year-old girl who accidentally gets pregnant by her best friend. She doesn’t want [...]
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I have a rant sitting in my head that will probably never see the light of day about how being single feels like the sole defining characteristic of my life right now. It seems sometimes that anything and everything I do, or think, or say, or write has, at its core, something to do with [...]
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Dear Readers, you are all cordially invited to The Waggle Room, a blog my sister Adiel, Raquel and I have started as a place to have discussions about movies.
Once a month we will pick a movie to watch and discuss. We will announce the movie on the first of every month (or sometime around [...]
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let it be beautiful
and let that be enough
no matter who sees
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skeletons of trees
shrouded
by winter mist
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There is a thrill that comes with finding a good book. That’s why I like used books stores. You’re never sure what you might find. It’s like a game, like you’re the predator prowling among bookshelves.
There you are, moving among the shelves like a panther stalking a moose. The lights hum above you, the smell [...]
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For Adiel, a sequel:
dying snow
slips away
from new green leaves
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