Pretty Cool Poetry is back! It’s been a while, but this week I’m back with one of my own poems. Actually, it’s a series of poems I wrote about a…
I wrote a little something once about being single. And it went something like this… I love an unexpected treasure, and I was gifted with one this past weekend. The…
She didn’t have high hopes. She never did anymore. But still, when he entered the dimly lit bar and she saw his small frame and much older appearance, she couldn’t…
There had been first days of school. A first lost tooth and that first trip to the movies by herself. But none as magical as that first date with her…
For months she trained, ate pounds of broccoli, woke up when the skies were still dark. And that day she suffered through 26.2 miles and accomplished her goal. But she…
He’s not good with plants. His ex-girlfriend’s tiny ivy plant died in a month. The lavender plant his mom dropped off didn’t make it two days. But this one that…
Three summers ago she bought them. She’d envisioned nights out as colorful as the flowers on these shoes. And there’d be dates, the shoes a perfect complement to a summer…
Why was it easy for everyone else to find a husband, boyfriend—or heck—even a date? What was the key to attracting a man amidst all the girls slutting it up…
It was just a jacket. Most people probably wouldn’t have even noticed nor cared about such a mundane detail. But I noticed. Right away. I saw it long before I…
#YesThisIsTrue
There’s a scene in commercials or in movies or in television shows where a guy or girl is standing somewhere in the world and there’s just a blur of action…
For the longest time, the secret of Santa’s identity was a mystery. My brother thought he’d figured it out one year when we were small. After Santa visited our house,…
Today I wish I only had sixteen years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box. If I was only sixteen, I’d still have hope, that youthful hope…
I moved to California at the beginning of fourth grade, and it didn’t take me long to find a cute, blond-haired boy to fall in love with. He was the…
In the epic film Sixteen Candles, the Geek and his two friends, Cliff and Bryce, go to a senior party at totally hot Jake Ryan’s house. They try to fit…