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Submitted to Contest #241
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 1987 Dear Diary, I stepped off the plane in my light wash jeans, white cotton peasant blouse, matching Levi jacket, and a pair of Cherokee wedges. I was just 21 and was wearing what I thought was the height of fashion. I had left Seattle on a typically cold, wet March morning, having no idea of the weather difference this far south. I realized I was overdressed. My linen skirt and a silk chemise would probably be the only appropriate clothing I brought. I had never been away from home on my own before. My frien...
Submitted to Contest #240
I don’t dislike my job. I love my job. I hate getting up to an alarm. Yes, I have tried everything I can think of and even more. I have read articles like “10 Ways to Wake Up Earlier in the Morning” and other similar web posts and blogs.I used to think that I wasn’t getting enough sleep. I probably don’t, but I manage to get through the ten-hour day, plus an hour commute each way, and do at least an hour workout after dinner, do the dishes, make my lunch, practice a foreign language, and read a book for an hour or two. Roughly translated, I ...
Submitted to Contest #239
“Get out!” I said to her back. She stopped her writing, put down her pencil, and her spine stiffened. She stared at a photograph I had bought her at the ocean years ago when we were still happy before I screwed everything up. I know she heard me, but she didn’t say anything. “Get out,” I said again, but not so forcefully. She breathed in and out slowly, still staring at the photo of a humpback whale’s tail dripping seawater into the dark green ocean water. “I’m sick of you and trying to make this work.” I tried to...
I woke up this morning to the alarm clock blaring “This is How We Roll” by Florida Georgia Line and Luke Bryan. It's not my favorite choice, but it works. I prefer Rod Stewart’s “Maggie May” or Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams,” but they don’t work so well to motivate us out of bed in the morning. I stretched in a few Cat-Cows, jumped off the bed, and strolled down the hall to the bathroom. My next stop was the kitchen to make sure the coffee pot had done its magick (technology, as some call it). Then I meandered to the dining room sliding glass door...
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