Author Archives: Maria Dorothy Veronica

Lift, screen, stare, Stare, screen, stare, screen, stare, twitch, fidget, distract. Blink, stare, drool, sweat, type. Confuse, stress, overthink, spiral. Pivot, smaller screen, quiet typing, more starring. Tired, hungry, walk, snack, hunch, smaller screen again, more sweating. Snap back, no more hunch, deep breathe, stare, Bigger screen, louder typing, more sweating. Overthink, anxiety, depress, spiral,Continue reading “ADHD & the Monkey”

To every guy I’ve ever been with, to every guy I’ve ever loved, to every guy I’ve ever experienced – I left a piece of myself with you along the way. I left pieces of myself I thought I didn’t need, pieces I thought I could live without. After each encounter, each relationship, I didn’tContinue reading “Regrow”

“She’s a special one, you never let her go” No let her go or else she will erupt in ways unimaginable, like a wildfire through a dry forest. What makes her so special is her desire for life and yearning for adventure. That is also what makes her so unattainable. It’s a lonely world beingContinue reading “Wildfire”

If I’m being honest, I have no idea what I’m doing. I won’t act like I do. I am simply going to write and you, my dear reader, are going to read. If I’m being honest, all I want is to get to know you. In what capacity, I’m not sure, but I know IContinue reading “If I’m Being Honest”

We spend our nights with our eyes squinched and our views’ blurred, with drinks in our hands and bodies crashing into us. But let me ask you….did you have a good time? Did you put yourself around the people who’d enhance your energy? Was your soul provided for in the purest ways? Were you truthfully andContinue reading “Should’s and Stuff”

Hey there! I hope you have been finding the passages from this blog interesting and intuitive. I hope they’ve been inspiring new thoughts in your mind so that you can think about the world from a different perspective. I realize I haven’t posted much since January. In fact, I haven’t posted anything at all! AndContinue reading “Shifting Gears”

I want to be the girl you can’t stop thinking about. The first person you think of in the morning and last person you think about before you drift off into your dreams, where you’ll meet me for a rendezvous in some far off place your mind has conjured up, with the utmost concealment, yetContinue reading “That Girl”

The night was dark and my body was chilled by the abrasive wind that flew through the air. I stepped through the door threshold, into the house. Surrounding me was warm, gold lighting as my nose was met with the scent of holly and pine mixed with the delicious food that was being prepared inContinue reading “Nonna”

“I still want to be friends” “We could still be friends” “I do think you’re great though, I’d be down to be friends” Breakups are a funny thing. We spend some time really getting to know someone in different ways than we would just a platonic relationship. We grow attached to their personality, their charisma,Continue reading ““friends””

I will have upper body strength. I will have whole body strength to be able to lift myself up over jagged edges and towering boulders that kiss the sky as the clouds cushion the peaks of the obstacle that once stood before me. I will find strength in mind; my whole mind, that will beContinue reading “Strength”