I don’t know if I’m prepared for motherhood. In fact, I think it’s safe to say I’m fairly freaked out. It’s been thirteen years since I’ve had a wee one romping around the house and let me tell you, it’s a whole new world in the realm of puppy parenting. My first indication of unpreparedness […]
Dedicated to Jen Lyman – May you find your Selves and gather them together in love and safety and may you wholly heal, both inside and out. I was told recently that part of me is missing. I wondered, what exactly does that mean? I have all of my limbs, my digits, my hair, though […]
I recently lost my mojo. I don’t know what else to call it but, as I’ve been devouring the contents of the Owning Pink website recently, I’ve decided that they are on to something BIG. Mojo means different things to different people. According to Owning Pink, for some, mojo is sexual, for some, mojo is being present […]
It’s often said that we are wise when we’re able to learn from the mistakes of others. So, in that vein, let’s be on with it… you’ve met that guy who expresses pretty intense interest, you’ve been on a few dates, he calls, you want to be proactive, to reciprocate, and to reach out to him, […]
It seemed I’d been driving down the proverbial highway of my life; eighty-five miles per hour, conditions were fair, my windshield was devoid of mashed gnats and the freshly laundered air traveled through my window in gusts that pelted the top of my seatbelt. One hand on the wheel, the other fumbling for a station […]
According to my personal psychologist, priest, and physician Google, I am not a germophobe. I know this without a doubt because Google has informed me that to be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder it has to be intense, it has to last a long time, and it has to severely interfere with daily living. I don’t […]
One of my favorite quotations in life is by an author unknown to me and yet it has helped to guide me with its simplicity. It is this: “At the great breakfast buffet of life, most of us prefer to waffle.” A slice of wisdom that inspires me every time I read it. It reminds […]
(Note: To my more, perhaps, delicate or easily queasy readers you may want to skip this one as it is quite graphic – although therein lies the point.) Social Networking? Really? Or is it just too much information? I wholeheartedly admit that I am as addicted as the next guy. Every morning, after grabbing my […]
I have been called a Non-Traditional student many times over the past sixteen years and I have yet to figure out exactly what this classification means. Traditional, or tradition, implies something that has been done for a very long time. According to my proverbial right arm, the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “tradition is an inherited, established, or […]
“Wake up and piss, the world’s on fire,” my step-dad used to yell up to me every morning through the railing of my bedroom loft. I would simply roll over and wonder what my mother saw in this vile man whom, with bitter irony, would get so plastered drinking Milwaukee’s Best that he’d forget where […]
