Quarter 2 dream girl calm, productive, happier she begs, last please last... balance comes to her after the stormy haze, when it begs, slow down now! work, sleep, dance, swim, be one is not more important than the other is. be yourself, own it this is the path to the true balanced, happy, fulfilled life. Quarter 2 Dream see this is the equation to a new, improved you!
Sonia Chintha is an Indian American writer who lives in the Washington DC area. She blogs, writes poetry, and fiction. She is also an English teacher who believes that our experiences teach us more than any test. She is the founder and co-editor of Good Little Girls.
“I want to be a lawyer,” (so I’m going to argue with you about everything,) Yeah? “like what makes a poem a poem?” Anything “Yeah
This weekend I get to go to New York City to help celebrate a friend’s thirtieth birthday. (I, too, went to NY and Long Island
“We have to make a full tea set.”
“Okay, okay,” Pooja said. She dug deep into the soil to retrieve our clay. I waited patiently for her to show me her roll-and-bend technique to make the tiny handles for our teacups. We were artists, rolling clay into the tea cups to use for our pretend tea parties. We were hosts. We were sculptors. We were friends. I was her confidante. She told me about the boys who teased her for raising her hand in class. She confessed that she couldn’t wait to get her menses. She told what she thought that was. Her narratives made me feel more. More than six. More than a measly first standard student. When we were together in public, I carried myself taller, like her, chest out, spine straight.