Your Side of the Bed
You seem to cross my mind every chance you get; at 11 am and 2 pm In the morning I have to remind myself to make coffee for one You are...


Reason 25
Do you have a favorite book? Mine is 'Oh the Places You Will Go' followed closely by 'Tuesdays With Morrie' and a long list of werewolf...


Naked Hiker Rocky Mountains National Park, CO
"Headed, I fear, toward a most useless of place, the waiting place. For people just waiting. [...] Everyone is just waiting. No! That's...


Naked Hiker Canyons of the Ancients, Co
Tuesdays are for Trivia. Today I needed to leave early. Not because I had something planned, just because I needed to. There was tugging...


Naked Hiker Mesa Verde National Park, CO
I met someone whom I loved; not in the obsessive childish infatuation way but in an honest-to-god-I-want-what-is-best-for-them way. When...


Naked Hiker False Kiva, Canyonlands National Park, UT
I am unlovable. I am just a sex object. My only purpose is to be raped and abused. How hard was that to read? How much more would it hurt...


Naked Hiker Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, UT
Recovery is delicate. Delicate the way a single feather can tip a scale or sound can cause an avalanche. The "road to recovery" has never...


Chair
Some days I am a lion. Other days I am a sea witch. More often than not I am a monster who tickle tortures little children. My favorite...


Naked Hiker, Canyon of the Ancients, Co
Recently I watched Serenity, while it is not a new movie it is a new favorite movie of mine. There is a point in the movie that really...


Naked Hiker Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Emergency code activated: Name: Kelly Hennessy Location: O'Connell's Pub, Huntington Beach Will disarm upon safe arrival home. Today's...


Reason 24
The Kiwi Room was a cacophony of crashing blocks, bell-like laughter, squeaky wheels, and children's' imaginations; conflicting with the...


Krk, Croatia
Most of the people, by what I could hear, were German tourists. Their language a familiar comfort. The ease at which they ambled through...


No Time for Bitterness (Published in USC anthology "Within/Without"
Tonight is unusually bright. Moonlight seeps between our curtains, spilling across the furnishing of our room. I do not need the light of...


Naked Hiker Angle's Landing, Zion National Park, Utah
This was the first Naked Hiker photo during my half-cross-country move to Denver for Grad school. I remember feeling elated like I was...


Reason 23
We live in a culture that shames normal and glorifies this photoshopped unattainable image. It impossible to avoid all the adds. Why is...