Getting Acquainted
I spend most of my time playing alpha female for my pack of dogs. Lucy (Boston terrier), Harley (chihuahua). Hershey (miniature dachshund) and Jasper (standard schnauzer) are my entertainment and sometimes muses. Jasper is a puppy mill rescue dog and I'm in the intital stages of writing a series of vignettes of his life since the rescue contrasted with eduaction about rescues and puppy mills. I do actually have other interests than writing and my dogs. I love to scrapbook, watch ice hockey, listen to a variety of music genres and reading. My parents both were avid readers and passed that love on to me. I'll read a cereal box if you set it in front of me!
Rebuilding the Wall
Rebuilding the Wall

Crawling into a corner
to curl up.
Begging for the loneliness
to leave me be.

I shouldn't have
let you in.

Your view of what
I should be--
unrealistic.

It was your failing,
not mine.

Time is for healing,
they say
(whoever "they" are).

Emotions are tools
for learning.
I sigh as I replace the
bricks around my heart.

Never again!
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