Ohana Means Family
When does a tattoo become a scar? When 'Ohana' is scrawled across your wrist. When family, the thing that should protect you, is the...
Poisoned Roots
It creeps up slowly like a sinking sunset. Like tainted water being soaked up at the roots, I don't realize that it has seeped in until...
Babydoll
I love you like Babydoll in your southern drawl Records spinning in the lounge Your voice filling the airwaves I love you like One ring...
Naked Hiker Landscape Arch, Arches National Park, Utah
I did not ask to be born. But one day I was. I came crashing into this world at 2 am. You fainted as I arrived. Was it because of the...
Heaviness of Empty Space
All the space left from all the people I loved and lost Who knew emptiness carried such weight Tad's inappropriate jokes no longer make...
Waking
The morning light sneaks quietly into your through drooping curtains you have been meaning to fix. It seeps in slowly casting soft lines...
Naked Hiker Waiheke Island, New Zealand
It was one of those few days I had the privilege of being off on weekend, at the same time at Regan. Maybe the first one in a week. I am...
Naked Hiker Bishop Castle, Co
"The past is only the future with the lights on" - +44 My first boyfriend had a five-year plan: Date for a year, move into an apartment...
Naked Hiker Omanawa Falls, New Zealand
Somewhere between "Sex on Fire" and "Use somebody", Gravity had shifted. I was exactly where I was supposed to be. Finally, I had found...
Naked Hikers, Kerosene Creek, Rotorua New Zealand
I have to be strong. I have to be strong for [insert the name of someone you love] while they are hurting. I can not cry or show my...
Naked Hiker Geierlay Suspension Bridge, Germany
I am on the ceiling. Floating, transparent in this world. Later, I would learn this is called dissociation. After a blow to the head, my...
Reason 28
Unit 76. The best unit. Better than unit 29, 30 or 61. Smack dab on in the center of the 'Bright Side' of Varsity, right by the...
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...
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 Salt Wash, Utah
I've only seen my dad cry three times. The first time was when he had to put Sonja (Our 19-year-old shepherd mutt, His first daughter) to...
