The Brain Dump

I need someone to talk to and just anyone won't do. I grab my phone and scroll through my contacts. Name after name rolls by, but none...

It doesn't take much. A single word usually does the trick. "Hello." It's enough for me. One hello, and all is forgive...

"I don't really connect with this story." "You're telling the reader what happened, instead of showing." "I...

It's late. The time has come to bury myself beneath low thread count cotton and billows of soft down. I'll sleep. But before conc...

I turn 26 today. I'm officially closer to 30 than to 20. Yesterday, my employer gave me an early birthday present....my annual review....

Job Opening Job Category: Relationship Type: Full time, plus overtime Salary: It's gonna cost ya Languages: Anything that sounds sexy...

During the question and answer session I conducted last month, one reader sent me a very interesting question via email. I didn't answe...

I didn't ask for this. My life was fine. I wasn't checking for, concerned about, or conscious of you. You came at me. You called...

Dear Short Bitch, I'm going to need you to do me a favor. You know that guy you're dating. The one whose navel you barely graze...

They're sitting in my suitcase, stained with hot sauce and soiled with sweat. I know they'll go in the next load of laundry, but af...

Okay I know I haven't been updating as often as I used to and I feel really bad when days go by and there's nothing new for folks to...

He shouldn't have told me. Yes, I begged him for the details. "Tell me exactly what was said,"I pleaded. He was vague, talk...

I was dancing by myself in a satiny red party dress, while couples danced around me. They were 16 going on 17, I was 15. The prom was for ...

February 21, 2001 Dear Diary, I just don't get it. It's Grammy night and I'm at home. I wasn't even asked to go. This is ...

You had questions, and I have the answers. Q. If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be? A. Who thinks about stuff like that? Hones...

It started as boredom relief. A place to dump the contents of my brain when I had nothing better to do. But with one simple look at male/f...

I hustled down the street, my lungs burning from exertion. How many more blocks? My eyes strained against the dimming light to read the st...

My mission was clear and had to be accomplished before 9 p.m. Find accessories, a purse, and shoes to go with brand new dress and do it all...

NUFF SAID

The first attempt to open my eyes was thwarted by a heavy does of fatigue. The second by a wave of laziness. But on the third try, my eyes...