Day 64 – Walking with Ghosts

By Valerie on July 10, 2011

I’ve just been checking my heart. There’s not as many cracks as I remember. The road trip got me looking at again, I’d been too busy to pay much attention to it.

I’m back at the site of The Big Break-up. Continue reading »

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Day 63 – if my soul were a puppy

By Valerie on July 10, 2011

If my soul were a puppy,
It would leap up and lick your face.

It’s just that excited for all that you are.

Tail wagging.

Unabashed joy.

To catch a glimpse…
To see the arrival…
of You.

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Day 60 – an aid to digestion

By Valerie on July 6, 2011

I had one of the juiciest philosophical conversations of my life last night. With a guy who’s brilliant, rational, and has developed a personal philosophy that is almost entirely in contrast to my own. Continue reading »

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Day 55 – Love of the Living Dead

By Valerie on June 29, 2011

Meals with Gloria aren’t so much a physical necessity as a social one. Whatever unholy force animates him also fuels him. He doesn’t really need to eat – aside from that constant background buzz, that constant craving for braaaains…. Continue reading »

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Day 54 – nerd is the new sexy

By Valerie on June 29, 2011

Buckle up readers, you’re about to take a ride on the tangent train…

So my world these days is surrounded by really smart people, and a lot of really smart men. There’s one fellow in my life I absolutely adore, brilliant, kind-hearted, grounded, really easy to be with. And VERY young – young enough to be well eliminated by the creepy age difference formula of half your age plus seven. So, in a state of drug-addled sentimentality last night I realized if I’d made a baby in high school, he would have gown into this man by now. Continue reading »

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