Relationships
November 1, 2009
- The recent societal bent towards navel-gazing has apparently reached its zenith with "Eat Pray Love," Elizabeth Gilbert's pseudo-memoir of self-discovery and seeking enlightenment. Or perhaps it was a shallow grope for the best-seller lists and Oprah's couch. Either way, it worked; her book has been on the best-seller lists for over two years now. But reading about this book ...
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November 1, 2009
- Don’t put all eggs in one basket, they say. It means you need to be emotionally promiscuous, keep your options open. I hate the idea. There is enough to explore with just one egg.The egg. Boiled so hard that it knocks its own shell off. Then there is the kind that jiggles ever-so-slightly like a debutante at a ball...left for a little less time, the jiggling is more pronounced and the yolk ...
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October 22, 2009
- Added a new story to RedRoom, in my view the best bit of prose I've composed this year. It's called "The Future" and you'll find it in the Articles and Stories section, in the column to the right of this posting.A bittersweet offering, with a coming-of-age angle. It's part of a short story cycle that's posted on my main blog, Beautiful Desolation, which is the exclusive venue for my ...
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October 21, 2009
- We would meet by the brick wall in front of my house on sweaty summer nights, hop on our Schwinns, and ride around the block looking for dead things to poke with sticks, stray cats to pet and name, evidence of a life only found in our untamed imaginations. We wouldn’t speak much. We wouldn’t have to. Our mutual escape into a world of monsters, swords, and adventure would say more than ...
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October 19, 2009
- Drip...drip...drip...drip... Twenty months earlier “Only one month until your retirement!” I look at Allen and exclaim. The excitement in my voice is audible. Only two weeks left and I will be taking a break from my job and planning the trip we have dreamed of and talked about with each other for years...as soon as he retires. I am going to take a three month leave of absence from work and ...
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October 14, 2009
- Intuition is a wonderful ability that can give us answers for living with more spirit and happiness daily. It is a quality that all have to some degree and is something that can also be developed as well.How can a psychic reading be of help when we are seeking answers about our lovelife, relationships or just life in ...
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October 11, 2009
- Another blog post about the eastern concept of "Surrender."There seems to be two extremes in human cultures, especially western culture. On the one hand we have people who are so completely self obsessed that -- even without knowing they are doing it -- they simply use others to get what they want or what they think they need. On the other hand are the people who give until it hurts, ...
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October 8, 2009
- Today I’m posting a guest blog by Laura McHale Holland because she has so much to share with us. Suicide is something hard for most of us to talk about. We don't want to even go there - especially when it involves the mother of young children. I appreciate Laura's honesty, and I am sorry for her pain, although I cannot know what she feels. Her poignant mother memoir speaks for itself. I ...
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October 7, 2009
- The red lipstick, hard and moist, hovered near my mouth. I bit it lightly and acquired stained vampire teeth. There was enough to know what the red lipstick could do. If I ever picked up the gumption to wear it, I’d see too much colour. A flesh-coloured one over the darker shade would mask it with only me knowing what lay beneath. A little secret sealed.That day, however, was meant for blood. ...
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October 5, 2009
- Yesterday I was looking over some quotes in my TellTale Souls material for an upcoming workshop when I came across a quote from Joyce Carol Oates from her novel, Missing Mom, which I find apropos to encouraging folks to write mother memoir."last timeLast time you see someone and you don't know it will be the last time. And all that you know now, if only you'd known then. But you didn't ...
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