WELCOME TO MOONJELLY

I spent the good half of yesterday watching a live feed of the protest in Seattle. It had started peacefully enough, but soon Eileen Fisher was being looted. People were fleeing the Helly Hansen store with arms full of puffer jackets. More puffer jackets than a single person could need. Cop cars were set afire. (How exactly does one set a car on fire? My husband and I wondered. It's the seats. The seats catch fire first). A woman made off with a whole cheesecake. A whole chee

Stop and smell the flowers. But only if you're certain no one else has breathed in the vicinity of those flowers in the past 24 hours. And keep your mask on. -j

Mermaid Motivational Book: Inside you'll find a glistening piece of yourself. Look inward and find the pearl, the part of you kept hidden away from the trauma of life. You might find you're stronger and more beautiful than you thought. Mermaid Cookbook: Shuck the clam open with the severed claw of a crab, stow the pearl away for necklace-making, then retrieve the clam flesh to add to your seaweed stew. Just kidding, we don't cook. We eat sea creatures raw, because we cannot c

I ordered a dress for myself as a little quarantine treat about two weeks ago. It was supposed to arrive last Thursday. That date changed to Monday. And now it has been pushed back to sometime today. By another carrier. Where are you now that I need you? Your absence has not gone unnoticed. I waited diligently for your arrival, you have tested my patience. How much more must the sands of time flow as I wonder about your whereabouts? In the melodramatic words of The Fray, "Why

A rose-cheeked girl, alone in the garden, butterfly perched on her knee, eyes closed meditatively— what pretty, romantic thoughts might be dancing in her mind? Her thoughts: “Omg, remember the time I took a poop so big that it wouldn’t go down the toilet, the poop was even like, ‘Lol, there’s no way I’m fitting through there, bro.’” Alriiiight, let's just leave her to her thoughts in privacy then, shall we? -j

... how long does it take for a person to become one ... with their couch? ... how much of me is me ... and how much of me is ... couch? -j