What I’ve learned is alarming my insides and yet when you notice it in me, I flutter with pride.
Could I do it, genuinely?
Yes, I am good at it.
Yes I deserve it and man the reward seems high
But the cost
still feels higher
What I’ve learned is alarming: the platter before me, it sits, within arms reach,
untouched
catching my eye with every sun ray.
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.
This week Modern Family aired an episode in which Alex the younger, super together, daughter in the Dunphy family has a “breakdown” on her sixteenth
The ultimate measure of a woman is not how many balls she can keep up in the air, but in the strength she gives herself
back home a loneliness fills the reality of it ending the fantasy blown away by the winds of truth unpack rearrange call him call her
You two need to get on a treadmill, you saywe two are washing dishes, making chai facing away from youYou two are standing behind us,