If Historical Figures Were Alive Today: Week 2

Joan of Arc: I’m a Roman Catholic Saint? Patron Saint of France? Paved the way for Henry VII’s Coronation? Considered one of the most prolific military leaders? Burned at the stake at 19? Sweet. I’m also a lesbian.

At My Lowest: An Aside

Clinical Depression is serious. It’s not mood swings, it’s not having a bad day–it’s not even having a bad week. Clinical Depression makes life a challenge, and not a fun one on Nickelodeon where you get to slime a celebrity, but one on Fear Factor like eating raw Rocky Mountain Oysters and then not even […]

Wednesday Special #1: Poetry Project 1.5

Chloe Denice’s poem: Melancholy The Earth speaks in whispers. Her call is dead leaves, ponds icing over, a child leaving home. She cries: We are all together! You know my name, but you have forgotten it. Your love of Spring does not heal. Your love of comfort does not soothe. Your teeth bite, they ache, […]

Phasmogalephobia: A Haiku

Who you gonna call, Ghostbusters, or Shark Week when a ghost shark attacks?

Phasmogalephobia: Fear of Ghost Sharks

Phasmophobia: Fear of Ghosts, Galephobia: Fear of Sharks It is common knowledge that children are afraid of ghosts. They get scared by the noises old houses make. Each creak or groan is Marley and his chain coming to condemn them. The monster will emerge from the closet with a sheet draped over its invisible form […]

Poetry Project, Week One: Aesthetic

Aesthetic (For Sarah S.) She stands silent: staring at the sea. She hates the hold it has on her. The waves tease her spine, sending shivers that scathe. She lost herself here: the water cast her about, tumbled her body in the chase to get to the sand. The water lies. It acts anonymously, anchoring […]

If Historical Figures Were Alive Today, week 1

George Washington: Kill me now. Thomas Jefferson: Kill me now. John Adams: Kill me now. John Hancock: Kill me now. James Madison: Kill me now. Benjamin Franklin: LAAASSSS VEGAAAASSSSSSSSSS!!

Growing Pains

This blog is a work in progress. I’ve already decided that I like the format of my anxiety posts and haikus to accompany them. But I was thinking: why limit it to that? Can’t I shoot bigger? So bear with me as I figure out just exactly what I want this blog to encompass. Right […]

Cibophobia: A Haiku

Blueberry blue bug buried in my morning meal my screams set you free

Cibophobia: Fear of Food (Fruit)

Every parent knows how tough it is to get your kids to eat certain things, and not eat other things. There’s that little trick where you tell your kid that vegetables give you SUPER SECRET powers that only adults can have, and all of a sudden, the little guys can’t get enough of whatever it […]