The other morning, just before waking, I had a strange, potent, boring, unusual dream. I'll skip all the parts about finding out that my grandparents had separately faked their own deaths and opened a bookstore with a courtyard and duplex out back. And the part where my grandfather asked me to come and clean out … Continue reading I have no idea what’s going on…
Category: dream
even in my dreams…
I glanced down at the screen on my iPhone and noticed someone had changed my lock screen. Instead of an adorable picture of my kid and our cat or a sappy kissy-face picture of my boyfriend and me there was a mogwai with an animated caption reading "gremlin elevator". As I noticed the stairs ahead … Continue reading even in my dreams…
green means go…
I dream. Sometimes those dreams seem to begin before I quite fall asleep and last a few moments after I begin to wake. I dream deeply. I dream with all I have. I live there. I rarely fly anymore. I rarely run away. I never fall. I seem to observe. To talk. To walk. To... … Continue reading green means go…
heredity
It's funny what we pass on to our kids, and I say that sitting at the computer eating cold chicken fried rice out of a Chinese take out container.For breakfast.I remember walking in the kitchen as a kid and seeing my dad lean against the counter in his bathrobe with the little white take out … Continue reading heredity
only the blue in my eyes…
I am blanketed in silence.It isn't that there's no sound, that there's nothing to hear. I look out over the dimly lit house and know that there should be house noises. The scuffle of my feet on the cold stone floor, the friction of my long white nightdress as it brushes against the sofa.The sound … Continue reading only the blue in my eyes…
turkey and cheese eggle…
I had a dream. I did. Really I did. It's true. I had a dream last night that I was on America's Next Top Model and I made it all the way to the end when they send the girls off to a foreign country and I was worried that I didn't have a passport … Continue reading turkey and cheese eggle…
dream marriage
Last night Mr. Kaos tossed and turned and turned and tossed and didn't sleep. We, all three of us, have a cold. K seems to be coming through it fine, Mr. Kaos is getting better, but I feel like a zombie.Still I felt bad to see him so exhausted this morning so I ushered K … Continue reading dream marriage