Mimi Words of the Day
23 Oct

“How Are You?”

A simple, yet under-appreciated question that could potentially save someone’s life.

23 Oct

Not a ‘Carrot’ in the World

Hey. Vegetables have feelings too, okay?
30 Dec

An Overdose of Nothingness

Depression is real. Whether you like to believe it or not, it is real and it will affect you or someone you love and it will break your heart. Depression is destroying our souls and stealing away the precious lives of those without a voice.
24 Nov

Weird Things I Secretly Love

The way coffee looks when you add cream; Eating tacos with ketchup; Watching the washing machine spin around in circles; Being swaddled like a baby
16 Oct

Worth the Read

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; we buy more,…
10 Oct

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Thank you Gabrielle Zevin, for reviving my love of reading again. As some university students know, you just don’t have time or energy to read a novel when you have to finish…
04 Oct

She’s a mess of gorgeous chaos and you can see it in her eyes.

02 Oct

Depression is…

Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who can’t wash a dish or change their socks. It affects the ability to think clearly, to feel anything, to ascribe value to your children, your lifelong passions, your relative good fortune. It scoops out your normal healthy ability to cope with bad days and bad news, and replaces it with an unrecognizable sludge that finds no pleasure, no delight, no point in anything outside of bed.

02 Oct

I’ve been told people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day. But if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine, I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.

28 Sep

My Latest Masterpiece