I show up, mid afternoon, with a bottle of strawberry margarita mix and a box of donuts. I don’t know all these girls. I don’t even know if they are all girls, aside from 1) the assumptions I’ve been conditioned with my whole life that says “This person ‘looks’ like a girl,” and 2) my …
one lazy afternoon with my girls, OR why we all need a ‘safe space’ Read More »
…the night I first met you, or that afternoon. As the sun lazily draped over us. As you held me the first time. Smiled at me, like you cared about me. It was nice, yes. Pleasant. Satisfying. But I didn’t know I’d love you. They say that you just know. The truth? I didn’t know …
This is about romantic love. Should you not care for romance, I hope you don’t feel unseen. Love can be for family, for friends, for self, for so much more…but this is about my romantic loves. Eight years ago, I met my first partner to share my journey. We agreed on three weeks, then the …
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“That voice, the one that tells you you’re worthless and stupid and ugly? It goes away, right? It’s just, like, a dumb teenage-girl thing, but then it goes away?” S4E6, Bojack Horseman There’s this little voice that’s followed me around, like a little lost puppy. She isn’t malicious, but her bite is sharp. But she …
stupid piece of shit; a reflection on my inner voices Read More »
I’ve left civilization God knows how many miles behind me. Sailed from the hottest place on Earth (at least that I’ve experienced) to the place where all the hot girls prance about in sexy parkas, the icy depths of the Antarctic Circle. It’s difficult to imagine a more isolated place in which to meet a …
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Last night I didn’t want to go to sleep. I felt a streak of stubbornness (“I am never going to sleep ever again!”). M told me, “Time for bed, Kitten.” And I went. Maybe a bit reluctantly, but I climbed in and crawled up to him. _______________________________________________________ The next morning, he praises me, “Good kitten,” …
I’m speaking with a friend about someone who has hurt them. And they tell me, But the thing is… And those words reverberate in my head, But the thing is…But the thing is…But the thing is… I am sure I am not alone in having a poisonous ex or two. By which I mean, they …
I’m watching the new, and final, season of Bojack Horseman. Normally I skip right past the intro, but I can’t locate the Amazon Fire remote. So I’m stuck watching the intro animation. Oh,well. And as I’m lazily watching, and half searching for the remote, something catches my attention. It’s not a throwaway. The intro. It’s …
five or six stories running through my head on a loop, the Read More »
Life with a kitten poses a series of strange, but manageable dilemmas….
To the married man to whom I will one day say “no,” Thinking on the wonderful love between the Professor, Wonder Woman, and the Wife, I thought about how troublesome it can be for couples to find their magical unicorn. Alas, dear married man, that I am about to reject, it isn’t so easy for …
open letter to the married man i haven’t yet rejected, an Read More »