Relationships
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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September 25, 2009
- When you find out that your out-of-town-boyfriend is cheating on you, step one is to immediately verify the source. Ask them as many questions as possible while you can still think straight. Do not answer any calls or texts from your boyfriend, but rather take yourself, as soon as possible, away from your house or your place of work. Go to a nearby park if you can, or ...
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September 23, 2009
- The Diamonds and Rust Series is a trubute to all the people I never said goodbye to. I gave up my first love for a boy, and boy ... did I regret it. But there's a valuable lesson about relationships in this true tale of a boy and a horse that started long ago. I was born a cowgirl, but my range was a glass littered parking lot. My horse, a bicycle I made my daddy paint white. There was no ...
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September 18, 2009
- When I least expected itgoing about my normal family businessOn a vacation in MarchA man came through to me in cyberspaceSaying words I had always thoughtBut never said aloud.I responded in kindAnd soon emails were racing back and forthAs my heart opened wide,beyond my controlHis words could bring me to tears in an instant,Or make me laugh,picturing him in his cottage in Berkeleydiscovering the ...
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