I have spent months in this bathroom, okay, maybe years looking in the mirror, wallowing in tears.

In my reflection I saw the death of many things:

love, respect,friendship, and my childhood dreams,

but I'll make this confession right here…

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

-Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone -

When I was a little girl, my parents bought Prince's album Purple Rain. I would sit…

As I go to sleep among the twinkling stars,

I talk to ashes in a jar.

Ashes that once taught me how to drive a car.

Ashes that comforted me when I was afraid of the dark.

I tell the…

I'm Nobody! Who are you?

By Emily Dickinson

I'm nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!

They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!

How public, like a…

Monty Monkey

Monty started out as a young monkey won in a poker game by a cigar smoking drifter named Maude. Maude and Monty roamed from town to town looking for the next jackpot and running away from bookies until…

Imagine waking up at 4:30am and working all day long at job #1, and then, when you get off around 3pm, you immediately head to job #2. When you arrive home around 7pm, you must make sure dinner is cooked…