Z is for Zest As the month winds down to a simmer, and I look forward to the May flowers that the April showers will bring, I think of the one feeling that underlay the entire month. The thirty days of thinking about a new feeling every day. A roller coaster from chagrin to sanguine.…

Y is for Yearn Aches lie in the heart, And love shines through the moon. For all that is forfeit and all that is attained; For all that is forborne and all that is endured; For paths untrodden and dreams unrealized, Yearning sings slow her melancholic notes. And slashes the spirit into chains of tears.…

X: (I couldn’t post this last night due to a power outage in our area. So today is a day for two posts!) Wind played in Mark’s red curly locks. He smiled, as he pedaled harder, sweat dripping down his brow and down his neck. He loved bicycling down this road. The sky dipped down…

W is for Wary I’ve always thought of myself as a carefree person. Recently, I was jolted into reality by a look from a colleague at lunch: What sort of Indian are you, whimpering at the sight of red flakes on her plate? My mum always had a theory about capsaicin and its corrosive effect…