The Ebb and Flow of Feelings
So, just a few weeks ago I posted this wonderful blog about how much better I’ve been doing and how many moments of pure joy I’ve experienced lately. I even waxed poetic…something about stringing...
View ArticleMelancholy Mermaid
Seven years ago, I took what would prove to be a momentous trip. In the middle of a deep depression, the collapse of my marriage and the unrelenting arguments between my husband and myself, I knew I...
View ArticleTo Those Who Let Me Go: A Post of Gratitude
Last night, as I was putting my youngest child to bed, she looked at me and said: “Mommy, I know why you haven’t found the right person yet. It’s because every man who has met you so far knows down...
View ArticleAmbivalent Daters
Lately I’ve been running into something which, while not new, still confuses the hell out of me every time it happens. Men who say they want to date, but don’t really want to date. Men who make a big...
View ArticleHolding Out For My Fuck Yes
I recently read an article that stripped away a lot of bullshit from my views of dating and relationships. Basically, all choices boil down to either a “fuck yes” or a “fuck no”. Whether it’s a casual...
View ArticleMy Super Power: Introspection To The Point of Insanity
So, due to a triggering event, I have now replayed my last relationship in glorious Technicolor several times. I’ve gone through rage and pain and a semi-acceptance and back again. I met up with an old...
View ArticleThe Zombie Apocolypse & FWB
At 5 a.m. Sunday morning, my bedroom ceiling collapsed. Obviously, I’m still alive; I managed to vacate the room 30 minutes before it happened. It was traumatic and I’m now coping with the nightmare...
View ArticleSisterhood and Bravery
This week has been so different from how I’d planned it. After all, a week with no children and no work is a rare occurrence, so I was imagining between my plans and the plans with my lover, it would...
View ArticleWhat A Difference A Year Makes
Today I went out with some friends for lunch and over coffee and quiche, the conversation turned deep and intense. Discussion of past relationships and their effect on our psyches, revelations of...
View ArticleGun-shy
I find myself in a curious place. I’m not in a lonely, sobbing little heap anymore. I still have plenty of times when I’m blue or lonely, but I no longer feel my life is a downward spiral of hopeless...
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