the bridal bouqet

It was a lovely wedding in a neighborhood church that welcomes all possibilities of love.
I’m not usually a big fan of weddings or anniversary parties or christenings or anything that reeks of well adjusted people having picture book walk happily ever after in the sunset family lives. But, the gospel choir sang “Kisses Sweeter than [...]

feeding the beast within

All my life –seriously, all my life, and that is considerable at this point, all my life I’ve felt like I was fighting dragons.
Picture me in a medieval princess gown, with a broad sword, fighting off dragons as they come at me from every side. Vicious, horrible things that would make grown men run and [...]

dating a shelter dog

I’m a shelter dog at heart. It’s not even well hidden. If you’ve never been a shelter dog, had a feral cat, never tried to rehab an abused animal, you have no idea how to love me and even less idea how to date me. How I got this way, well, there’s an entire other [...]