the soundtrack for a memorial day party. for jello shots and wine. for floating and swaying and dancing. for blonde hair and mint nails. for a sunday drive. for rose petals littering the ground.
my mom’s storage shed burned to the ground. all that was left was some burnt school photos, my charred baby book, and a few pages from her wedding album. I sifted through them with blackened fi...
I was watching my dad and Brigs in the pool on Sunday. the water was clear, the bougainvilleas were dropping heavy petals on the ground…yellow, purple, red. the shed was painted pink. the sun w...
this is the week where I held you in my arms, thinking very long and very hard about The Great Thing that’s been sitting heavy in my thoughts for a very long time. Something always felt off abo...
the soundtrack for standing in the middle of an orange grove, a hovering crown of bees dancing around your head…and bullets exploding all around.
I was sitting at Tia’s one night a couple years ago before one of Alex’s softball games drinking a giant frozen sangria when Julie texted me. “will you feed chelsea while I’m ...
this was the week of your first real gut wrenching, heart breaking cry. it took me surprise and for a second, I didn’t know what to do. my breath caught in my chest and I started to sing you th...
it was just the two of us. it was just a little overcast. it was just the two of us, back where it all started. the same stretch of beach from that summer five years ago, before jobs and kids and a w...
the soundtrack for paint covered fingers. for beer and crawfish. for sand and sea. for babies loving mamas and mamas loving you.
I dreamed we were in a wooden house, a house with no rooms, just balconies and stairs stacked precariously atop one another. all the people I loved were there but they had no faces…they were so...
way back when – last september – Incubus played a show in Tampa. my dad, having met them and done the inner-circle thing in LA already, decided to have them come over before the show to s...
In the middle of a monday, in the middle of a soft black sheet on the floor of a sun drenched room, two boys lay staring up at a camera. one squirmed and smiled, waved his little fists in the air. th...
we were sitting out in the driveway the other night after dinner, throwing the basketball around, letting B get as filthy as possible before his bath. Rex was sleeping by the rosebush and my hands we...
beat up scooter. thick smoke. loud motor. antique hats. new house. bourbon pie. derby bets. spare change. sweet sangria. tacos. tequila. dirty feet. birthday pup. red sombrero. stolen glass. quiet mo...
I listened to Big Jet Plane over and over and over again the day I had you. I gritted my teeth and and tried to crawl inside that song, away from my body, away from the pain…imagining that you ...
it was always just the two of us…my dad and I orbiting around each other like some kind of unseen stars. he fought for me. he fought it for it to be that way, just him and I and eventually the ...
we went to the doctor today and you didn’t cry once. not when they weighed you, not when the doctor touched you withe her cold, unfamiliar hands. not when she shined light in your eyes, not whe...
the babies are sleeping. the incense is burning. the coffee is brewing. the crystal in the window is sending rainbows spiraling through the living room. the dogs are sprawled out on the couch. the bo...
land for miles. trees that touch the clouds. sunburned shoulders. all the pretty horses. happy in your pop pop’s arms. feet swinging in the air. flowers and vines…things that creep, thing...
Come my love I’ll tell you a tale Of a boy and girl and their love story And how he loved her oh so much And all the charms she did possess Now this did happen once upon a time When things were...
this was the week where you looked up at me and studied my eyes quite critically for a minute before a smile devoured every part of your face. A smile so big that your eyes squeezed shut. A smile tha...
she plays a tune for those who wish to overlook the fact that they’ve been blindly deceived by those who preach and pray and teach but she falls short and the night explodes in laughter well i ...
ryan and koko are getting married tomorrow. I’d paint their names across the sky in fire if I could. because then…then, everyone would look up in wonder and say to themselves, ‘my g...
Heavy night, it was a heavy night Feels like we come back from the dead Heavy night, it was a heavy night I cannot remember what I said to anyone If we get up now we can catch the afternoon Watch the...
we went to the doctor today and he already weighs 9 lbs 15 oz and has grown 1.3 inches. he’s so good. so good. he only cries when he’s hungry and he sleeps well all night. we thought B wa...
The soundtrack for days spent with the sun above, dry grass below. For jasmine climbing, tendrils choking rock, white flowers falling. For roses blooming. For the rise and fall of my baby’s che...
once upon a time a perfect weekend would have been Alex and I on our empty stretch of beach, the one where the old man does yoga standing on the splintered fence and sometimes in the waves…the ...
pagan spring. early morning. easter brunch and unwrapped pewter. three dead bunnies. jellybeans and cotton candy. rabbit ears and leopard glasses. cold beer and an evening sun. skinned knees and gian...
he’s here. Rexley Archer 8 pounds and 13 ounces 21 inches and a smile that makes your heart ache with a thousand things… every emotion I’ve ever felt…every thought, every memo...
singing this through contractions: and assembling this in between them: …and wishing I had more cereal. or ice cream. or both. ————&# 8212;———R 12;- *...
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