The Salad Bar of Life

“Have I told you my story?” my mother asks me as we walk from Jason’s Deli to her white spaceship-like minivan.
Her voice is soft and excited and shy. I am my mother’s youngest daughter. I am graduating college in two weeks. She will cry. She will say, My baby is grown now.
When I graduated from [...]

Life’s Goal

A café. Large and spacy but full of cozy love. Couches, round tables, interactivity. Plants everywhere. Beautiful art on the warm walls. All the employees smile, laugh, speak with customers about how their day has been. They make their day better.
They make their whole week better.
Windows to let the light shine in and help the [...]

Second Guessing

Monday night, I sit and I stare. I stare at the wall, I stare into the air, I stare at people who don’t know why I am blankly searching their eyes for some kind of answer.
As I stare, I think about my pending life — the one that awaits me after May 16. And when [...]