Poway people will recognize this

Fuck my pretentious fucking neighborhood. Fuck it right in the eyeball. In fact, fuck Tina’s neighborhood while we were at it, all the places where people thought they needed to hole up as if other people were the goddamned apocalypse. You couldn’t walk to the fucking Seven-Eleven without a lunch break.

Vegas

Then the text message gives you this

Back where you don't want to be

Think about the times you've cried. The hardest, the longest, the most intense, the worst. The times that left you pallid and shaking, changed.

Then write about it.

Shit. It's Friday night. Can't I drink instead?

Dispatch from home

"Time to bang our head and scream because it hurts." - Adam

Sunday

Amazing book

He was no longer sure, he in fact had never been sure, whether he liked his life because he really did or whether he liked it because he was supposed to. - Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie, "Americanah"

July 2009: Overland Park, KS

Who the hell are they?

Exhausted

Being the primary caregiver for a toddler is draining. There's really no way around it. Especially for someone like me, who never planned or prepared for it.

I love my son. I also love my free time, quiet and chaos-free moments. How can I reconcile the two? I haven't the slightest.

But I'm sitting at a cafe now, and instead of bitching, let's put that energy into writing.