I was taking a walk, and I was naked.I was completely content and comfortable, just being me, free, arms swining, walking to the park. I wasn't self consious. Just peaceful.I turned around and I was walking home from the park, and a pickup pulled up next to me. The woman driving it was blond with short hair, and looked friendly. But the man sitting next to her didn't. He had a scrubby beard and a...

The sky was cloudy, but our laughter was bright.Our group was large, made up of anyone who wanted to join. Some of us were there because we had no where else where we were welcome, and many of us were old friends.We're the kids who didn't know how to be cool.We were playing a childish game that involved goofy poses and silly rules.Yeah, we looked stupid, but who cared? It was our lunch break, and...

I can watch The Notebook, and I don't cry. If anything, I'll roll my eyes.Rugrats The Movie makes me tear up when Chuckie thinks about his mom.I just sat through Up, and I wanted to cry like five times. Especially during the short film in the begining.I didn't, though, because I wanted to be a man in front of my dad, who I think I saw wiping his eye once.I get terribly weepy during children's...

I used to be sad a lot.I felt like everything was about to break beyond repair, and I was betraying my friends because I wasn't like I was when they met me; quiet, but when I did say something, it was random enough to make them laugh, the good listener, loyal.Well, I never really stopped being loyal, and they've all returned the favor.And I don't get like that so much anymore. I still do...

I went to put food out for my cats, and I saw this tiny little mouse on the ground, not moving at all. I figured I'd pick up the poor little guy and put him outside. I thought he was dead.But then he started squirming, which just made me sad. He moved his legs like he was running but couldn't stand.There was no way he was going to make it through the night, or that my dad would let me bring him...

I saw a billboard a few weeks ago that simply said We Apologize For.... in large letters and then weapologizefor.com in smaller ones underneath.I went to look at it, and I was very surprised to see that it was a website created by a church within walking distance of my home."....We believe it's time for the church to apologize for being irrelevant. For holding a "holier than thou" attitude and...

Thanks for introducing me to music and The Simpsons before I had my teeth.Thank you for allowing me to constantly go into your cabniet and borrow your CD's.Thank you for being the oldest, most stubborn, most annoying friend I have.Thank you for being the "sane" parent.Thank you for trying to kill my ex before you even knew we were going out.(and thank you for giving me the power to say "my dad's...

A actually have something to say here, so please don't bite at me for spam.It's a regular journal, but it's also helping my friend find my account.He's new, you see.So, Danny, if you're reading,this is Halle.Message me.Rocketh on.Anyhow, onto the journal part.The Blood of Cuchulainn is my absolute song.It makes me see flowers blooming and feel sunshine on my skin.Then I look at the window and see...

Erin & I go with my friend Nate to his youth group every Sunday.Basically, we just play murder in the dark for an hour and then do something in a little group for five minutes.Erin's Pagan, I'm Agnostic, and Nate's a Quaker.He doesn't say anything about it, but I know it gives Nate piece of mind to take us there.His brothers aren't his only company and I think he worries about us going to...

I've felt like total hell for the past 4 days or so.I told my mom I had the flu.She took me to the doctor.I told them I had the flu.They asked me a bunch of questions.Gagged me with a Popsicle stick.Shoved a giant Q-tip up my nose.Had me swallow the most disgusting substance known to mankind.Made me wait in that little room for 40 minutes.And told me I had the flu.I know.Who would've guessed?I...

I just finished rereading The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry. It's one of my favorite books, but it makes me cry every time I read it.I was helping my dad decorate the living room, and he asked me why I looked so bummed."I just read a book where my favorite character accidentally kills his sister's baby and gets sent to an insane asylum, never to be heard from again. We need to do something cheerful, it...

Earth is full of beauty and hatred. Love and war. Compared to the rest of the universe, it's completely insignificant. It dances around the sun with the moon and other planets to it's own music. It's warmed by sunshine and laughter. It has oceans of salty tears. It has an uncountable number of questions and mysteries, some with no answer. It's there, like the other stars, sun, moon, planets, and...

On Friday at school, I was yelling at my science homework in ICE. The kid in front of me let me borrow a colored pencil so I could use it. His name's Henry, and he was cool. He tried to make me feel better about a really crappy drawing of a fairy that I did by showing me how bad he was a drawing. We joked about how unfortunate it would be if he had just doomed the human race to evolve into stick...

Russell and me were being obnoxious, arguing about who missed who more through email.I decided to prove that I missed him more.I guess you can say I’m a competitive person. (Hehe)So I told my mom that I was taking a shower, grabbed a pair of flip-flops from my closet, turned the shower on, closed the door, and climbed out the back window, praying that I wouldn’t be caught.It was freezing...

I open my eyes, yawning slugishly.I look at my clock, and it says that I slept until ten o' clock.Usually I'd get up.But seeing as I stayed up all night,and after the week I had,staying under the covers and never coming outseems like a pretty good idea right now.I close my eyes and curl back up, happy to be warm.Then I open my eyes again.What was that I just saw?I sit up and see that an impossibly...