Blue-green eyes aren't my type. Neither is light brown, almost blond hair. I usually go for brown eyes and dark hair. Quiet and more reserved typically isn't my style, either. And yet... ...you are all of these things. You aren't on my list of everything I was looking for, and I can't get enough of you. We've only just met, yet I am fascinated. Intriqued. Are you real? I'll find out, I'm sure. Please don't mistake my distance. Too many heart aches have made me closed. I dare you to open these...

In the middle of no where, When it's just us, If I'm angry with you, If I make a mistake, If I hurt you without meaning to, When we're in a room full of your closest guy friends, When I'm crying and I don't know why, When I'm bloated and frumpy and haven't showered yet, After you come home from a long hard day, After we have disagreed on a core belief, After we were together 20 years, If we only met yesterday, If it weren't for the history, If I gained 50 pounds, While I'm having a hard time,...

Of time spent. Of moments left to spend. Of situations, what they are, what they want them to be. The past embracing the future, the future accepting the past. No present. Of the embrace. The acceptance. Delusions. That moment that changed everything. That ruined everything. So close. Too close. My heart. Your hurt. Caring too much for you, not enough for myself. I want to tell you. To look in the eyes and explain. I try. I try all the time. Preparations. The words. The way. Turned to dust th...

Far from perfect, with perfect intentions. Never becoming what I want them to be. Expressions. Obsessions. Connections. Regressions. The night falls darkest just before morning light. I lost sight of it. That blue diamond called my soul. Where did it go? Now I know. Sleeping. Dreaming. Believing. Conceiving. Behind my minds eye, waiting for the right moment to show itself. There it is. Having been there all along, it laughs. Hiding beneath a thick cloud of what has been. Betrayal. Hurt. Misun...

He has been miserable, throwing tantrums and acting out. I can't tell you how many times I have thought that if I ever acted that way at 5 years-old, my behind would be raw by the time my mother was through with me. With all the time-outs I have given him, he has never budged. Four days a week I come here when his Mom works the night shift at the hospital. I got this side job after my sister Jen, the nurse manager at the Health Park emergency room, told me of her friend, Lori, a single Mom in...

It was a startling moment when she saw it, just a simple crack in the door. The door itself she had only recently noticed, standing on the farthest side of the tunnel she had been walking. Just as she was approaching that door, just before her eyes befell it, she was thinking of the path behind her. The rocks she had stumbled over, the places where she had fallen and torn her clothes, skinning her knees... the people she had met in crossing tunnels... some helping to guide her, some setting h...

Ladies, I have learned a very important lesson recently that I feel is important to pass along. In my 24 years, I have dated much. I have have been in a few very serious relationships and was in love two of those times. I am an attractive person by society's standards: 5'2", 110 lbs, long brown hair, dark brown eyes. Woah wait though, I have a brain. I spent 6 years getting two B.A.'s and enough common sense to not fall on my face in the real world. And I have issues. We all do, men and women...

Dave, The funny thing about this e-mail is the reason why I almost didn't send it. I thought to myself, "Dave is at sea. He is under so much stress right now. This might bring him down." Isn't that funny? After everything that has happened, I am still considering your feelings first. And I have to admit, there is a twinge of guilt I get for denying my first instincts and sending this e-mail anyway, but it has to be sent. For while you are out there in the great white blue, working incredibly ...

Let them down. Leave them up. Let them down if you can. Let them in. Keep them out. Leave it behind. Live it again. Hang on to it. Let it go. Keep it in.. Let them know. Don't look back. Don't regret. Learn from the past. Try to forget. Ask for advice. Go with your gut. Don't think twice. Consider enough. Blame the hurt. Don't blame yourself. Look in a mirror. Put it on a shelf. If you don't know what to do, don't do anything at all. Don't wait for life to come to you, go hit the ball. Don't ...

It isn't what I thought it would be. Nothing ever seems to be. I sit here baffled by today, by the way I was misled to believe I could actually make a difference. Feeling slightly defeated, my inner wisdom rises up refusing to end the fight. Oh but thine enemy is tricky. He lies, in typical salesman banter, making even the most synical know the world is flat. Except me. I can see the difference. The happiness of seeing truth is quickly dampened by the realization that I am powerless to change...