Around the holiday season is a great time for waiters and waitresses everywhere to begin picking up shifts, stashing away cash, and staying busy through the inevitable holiday rush. For me, these shifts fly by and my pockets get thicker faster as I get sat table after table and just work straight through! Now first […]
Impatient, Socially Unaware, or Both?
Walmart might be the best place for people watching. “If I get here and it’s backed up I’m gone be mad!” An older gentleman exclaimed leaving a backed up line. It was a Friday night, and I understand some people are exhausted after a long week, but is Walmart ever really a quick in and […]
Realizing Your Worth
Do you find yourself unattractive for superficial reasons? Do you actively seek and change parts of your life you are unsatisfied with? Is self-worth a concept you think only exists in poems or on faulty Instagram posts? If you answered yes to any of the above…I want to share with you some ways I realized […]
Cool, blue serenity
She woke up in the middle of the ocean surrounded by nothing but cool, blue serenity she peacefully dozed off this was the part of her dream where for the first time ever the sharks came and sheer terror and panic ensued this was the only time the new nightmare after the dream struck […]
Stronger Now
The sting I felt when I always expressed my admiration and attraction to you but you were always the recipient The gradual hopelessness I assumed when I realized I was always the rock as if you knew it was what nature intended The debilitation I faced when I let you do these things […]
Morning at Marley’s
Every. Single. God damn. Morning. The rocks hit my window, seven a.m. sharp. I know Don worked a lot, or so he said he did. I guess that was why seven was so consistent. But he could leave me the hell alone. I worked too, I usually went in to the restaurant at nine but didn’t have to help […]
Flowers for Faye
“Who’s that young man there outside the door? He looks like he must be for you,” grandma slid her glasses down the bridge of her nose and peered out the blinds. “Oh grandma…it’s not Clayton is it?” I had just sat down with my favorite dinner. Scrambled egg whites, sliced avocado, and a fat salmon […]
