Valerisse is waiting for her 10% - June 19, 2010 add/view comments (0)

After watching a family video of myself done on Christmas...I am more determined than ever to shed the pounds that have redefined my identity. I cannot see the person that I need to be in my appearance and it saddens me. So as I approach the age of 40 this upcoming year I will strive and achieve my goal to lose the wieght that has come upon me through child bearing, a bad marriage and depression. My children are not babies anymore, my marriage is just about dissolved, and depression is not apart... (continue reading)

Oh, how you end us The beginning of disaster is the moist inside of a lie. How you speak with fiery tongue, with smoke words. How you hide spirits in the spaces of the house no one inhabits. There are other silences you keep. There are other silences you keep about the way you will end us or send spirits in the spaces of the house no one inhabts. The beginning of disaster; your fiery tongue speak. Words fly up in smoke, curl inside-out to reveal the moists parts of a lie. Inside the tender... (continue reading)

How can you love someone, you've never seen?
How can you feel a loss for someone, you've never met?
I ask myself this as my heart breaks day after day from the realization that Michael Jackson is gone. When I was a teenager, the daughter of a preacher man who forbid me to openly enjoy secular music; I fell in love with Michael Jackson. I fell in love with his voice, his dance, his music; they brought me such joy and inspiration. I reveled in how happy I felt when I listened to each musical... (continue reading)