My mom texted me a video a few days ago featuring a poem about an 80-year-old woman who wakes up to find herself magically back in her 38-year-old body, living one day in her 38-year-old life. She sees her younger body and her small children differently, with the perspective of someone who already knows how … Continue reading Mysterious Beach
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Choose Your Heaven
What if Heaven is a moment, captured, that we can stay in forever? What if Hell is a moment, captured, that we cannot bear to leave? What if Heaven and Hell are just moments, Happening all around us all the time? What if Heaven is the moment that held our greatest love, and Hell the … Continue reading Choose Your Heaven
We’re In The Cash-For-Teeth Business
I’m sharing the recent experiences of the O’Neill household in the hope that some of you may avoid learning the same lesson I have recently learned about unintended consequences. This past Christmas, our 10-year-old twins learned the truth about Santa Claus. Being deductive reasoners, they quickly concluded that the Tooth Fairy was also fictional. At … Continue reading We’re In The Cash-For-Teeth Business
The Cattening, Rat Butts, and How We Acquired an Extra Animal: An O’Neill Pet Saga
We have a rat butt problem. No, you didn’t read that incorrectly. Let me explain. Back in early 2020, we decided it was time to add a couple of four-legged members of the household. The right amount of time had passed since we’d said goodbye to our last elderly pet, and apparently raising four-year-old twins … Continue reading The Cattening, Rat Butts, and How We Acquired an Extra Animal: An O’Neill Pet Saga
The Gray
I’m sanding my rough edges And trying to descend From the hill that I kept dying on I’m trying to make amends My breath, it comes out ragged I don’t know what to say I’m trying to move from black and white To living in the gray So rigid and inflexible Unable to see the … Continue reading The Gray
My Best
I did my best until I couldn’t anymore and suddenly, one day, I stopped. I’m still recovering.I spent a lifetime at my best. Ceaselessly pushing, holding myself up. Everything at its peak. Running on all cylinders, all the time. Nothing less. I spent years on eggshells as I waited for my best to pay off. … Continue reading My Best
The DFP
Six months into being married, I decided we should get another dog. Michael wasn't totally on board so I did what any rational person would do - I waited until he was gone one night and then started looking on Craigslist (why Craigslist, you ask? I don't know, it was 2009). Against all odds, I … Continue reading The DFP
Welcome to Pocket Sized
Hi...I'm Courtney. I have been writing for as long as I can remember. A lot of my writing has been lost over the years, but some stuff is still with me. I created this site as a place to house anything I've written that I like. Here you might find old college essays (proof I … Continue reading Welcome to Pocket Sized
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