• Friends and Cheesecake

    I love cheesecake! And it’s my dessert of choice on my birthday (which was two weeks ago) so I thought it fit well with this week’s short prompt.

  • On Hashish AKA The Family Trip

    This wasn’t our first rodeo. We ground it up, put it in orange juice and chugged it down. Blech. We made ugly faces and got something else to drink, then sat down to wait. Our night began with Netflix, but once the colors started to run – when the sounds made twists and turns before…

  • Life Changes

    Up until a week ago, I was living with my best friends. Our lease was coming to an end and for a month and a half we were trying to find a new house to move into. We searched, we viewed, we applied and we came up with nothing. We did everything right. We had…

  • The Beach

    *Write about the beach: your favorite memory of a trip, what you love, what you hate. Would you live on the coast if you could, or is it better just for a visit?* A couple of years ago, my sister and I took a vacation to South Padre Island. It was a thirteen-hour drive and…

  • The Adventures of Bob the Beetle

    “It sounded like a bird was falling through the tree,” Codie described when they first came across the beetle that will later be known as Bob.   Two of my friends brought over a tupperware container one day that was the new home to a massive beetle and a scorpion. Both of which they’d found…

  • Motivation and Support

    I have a great group of friends. Most of them have been in my life for the last eight years. It seems like a lifetime. I don’t know where I’d be without them. Or who I’d be for that matter. It’s very important to surround yourself with good people when you have goals and the…