The food is out of the fridge. The vacuum is all packed up. The rooms emptied. The bathrooms cleaned out. The mailbox checked. Everything is all out. Now all that’s left is to leave the keys on the counter. The keys on the counter. The door shut. I’m out. Seeing it all empty was strange. For one, it was clean. […]

I’m avoiding doing the dishes and taking out the trash, so let’s feel these feelings. I’m too sentimental for my own good. Things that shouldn’t mean anything mean everything. Small bits that most people forget or overlook are the things I hold onto and cherish the most. And hold on is exactly what I do. I keep and I collect […]

We had just wrapped up an hours long game of spicy Never Have I Ever, which I had to take a drink far too many times for… It was now a question game. Short answers only. The first card drawn said, “If you were in a parallel universe where you said yes to everything, where would you be?” Half the […]

It started in 2020. It never used to be this way. I used to do it big. Throw parties, have dinner, eat cake. But like most everyone in the world, the pandemic kicked off a new time of loneliness. There was a wave of isolation that never quite settled itself back down again. So rather than stay in Hawaii for […]