A Hard Night, and a Tough Lover

A few weeks ago, another blogger shared the love story behind her marriage. She was discouraged because she felt it would never go viral — it was too old school and traditional. I didn’t know how to respond. I couldn’t classify my current love story, and I never thought…

Scarlet and Pale

Author’s Note: This is just a fictional account based on “Internet horror stories” and a desire to have a what-if plan in place, especially for those who don’t have a lot of experience with a darker side of life. Please be warned that it gets a little graphic, but in a classy way (as if any of this…

Thanks, Law and Order: SVU

As a parent, I struggle. The world we live in seems to have so many horrors and hard things to live with and process. Maybe this is because I grew up before the era of 24x7 news feeds, or maybe this is because the world is truly getting progressively, chaotically more evil all the…

Bettie and the Oom Transporter

My name is Bettie. My Flying Fur family and I live in deep, dark sleep places when the Oom ball is high in the sky. When the Oom ball disappears, we all fly out and go off on our own. We eat six-legged flyers and steal Oom food from their strange living poles. Some of us eat…

Life and Perms

I finally gave up.

I needed a new hair dresser/stylist/whatever the modern, politically correct word is. I’m so frugal that I get a perm and a trim, and I’m good for months. So long in fact, that my former provider has moved on and the business doesn’t even have my contact…

Biblical Role Models for Sales Reps

The Bible has sales reps. Okay, not under the kinds of titles we’re used to like sales representative, account executive, territory manager.

The Biblical title for a sales rep is merchant. And it was full of merchants — grain dealers (Isaiah…

Zippy’s Medium Takeover #2, Zippy Interprets Shakespeare’s To Be or Not To Be Soliloquy

One of my whelps ‘Tee’na is studying some human called ‘K’Spee’. She keeps that barking… er, talking over and over in the same words. Not sure I understand but I started to lick…

Changeling’s Chagrin

You can’t love me
When I am what I’m called to be.

I can’t love me
When I try to be what you need me to be.

It doesn’t matter what my lover’s heart is;
You’d almost rather I’d bed down with…

Rejects in Waiting

Weary, worn, exhausted…
Naked in a fishbowl pool
Of broken humanity
From every race and income bracket.

Most will be denied the help they seek.