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In The Grip of Grace 12 May 2013 | 10:59 pm
I've always imagined grace as ephemeral, drifting light as a feather, settling peacefully on someone's shoulder. Or around him, unnoticed. Or seen, but not recognized. Maybe even shrugged off. But I ...
When I say I love You 12 May 2013 | 03:10 am
When I say "I love you," I give you a gift. I give you a dagger. I point to my heart and say, "Here. This is where you can hurt me." And I wait. (photo by Julie De Leon)
"Do I Make You Proud?" 10 May 2013 | 04:29 pm
The piece of sky above the trees in the distance have turned from dark to a dull grey-blue. I scan the expanse, searching for my mother's spirit, knowing she's nowhere there. Eleven hours ago, I was ...
How to Train A Woman 30 Apr 2013 | 06:39 pm
If you want to own her and keep her, Read the lines below; They are tried and tested tricks That every man should know. Jane or Susie or Meg-- call her what you will It should make no difference to y...
Fallen 25 Apr 2013 | 11:20 pm
the one you didn't meet the smile you didn't return the name you didn't ask the date you didn't set the conversation you didn't have the laughter you didn't share the stories you didn't tell the next...
What he'd done 23 Apr 2013 | 11:36 am
You told him about that night. That time when you went out drinking with co-workers on a Friday night. When you came back to your table after a trip to the powder room to find only one male co-worker...
Flowers 31 Mar 2013 | 01:46 pm
Her hands were a tribute to her work: they were rough, callused, perpetually stained with ink or paint or contact bond. They've been bruised and cut and chafed and nicked and scalded and pierced and s...
Void 30 Mar 2013 | 12:09 am
The first time she noticed it, it was the space on her back, right below her nape. She was peeling carrots then, using a big knife that wasn't designed for the task but it was the only knife she coul...
For Tito Bert, because you are loved... 28 Dec 2011 | 07:12 pm
...and will be terribly missed. I was thinking of writing about you, but words fail me. I thought maybe drawing you would be easier. The composition will be in black and white and varying shades of ...
Dying for Chocolate: Whodunit #9 12 May 2011 | 02:46 pm
Dying for Chocolate is a book in Diane Mott Davidson's culinary mystery series about Goldy Bear (yes, that's the name of the main character and, no, this is not a fairy tale): newly divorced from an a...
