Dear former husband, Thank you. You loved me all you could, with all you had. Thank you. You and I made three of the most incredible humans. (inside and out) We did that. We did a lot while we were together. We talked SO much. We fought SO hard. We tried and tried and tried. … More To the ONLY man I ever loved…
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” ― Anne Frank Contrary from the last cluster of articles I’ve posted… I am not ALWAYS so existential, or “meta” analytical. I made the comment to one of my closest friends about how I felt so glad I get to be … More Not Always Sad
“There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can … More Single Lady
“Cause we’re adventurers, and heartbreaks our map. A final destination, we lack. And we’ve stopped asking directions to place they’ve never been. And to be loved, we need to be known. We’ll finally find our way back home. And through the joy and pain that our lives bring… we can do hard things.” —Tish Melton … More Hard Things
“Everything is an experiment.” ― Tibor Kalman “I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.” ― C.S. Lewis I used to ride my cruiser bicycle up the biggest hill my small town had, to get to the public library. … More …Processing…
**Trigger Warning** This post contains graphic recounting of sexual assault. “two types of survivors: the ones who did not die, and the ones who live. There will be those who will always remember and be the victim, and ones who just won’t. You have to go on, you have to learn, and you have to … More The night that changed it all
“Humans do not represent two discrete populations; heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats, and not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts … More My Kinsey Scale
“A great story is impossible to forget.” ― Adrienne Posey I heard this parable while living in China. It changed me forever. A traveler is moving to a new city, but does not know the way. He hires a guide to travel with him for a small fee. The traveler notices MANY things on his … More The Traveler and the Demons
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” ― Virginia Woolf “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” ― Mahatma Gandhi How long have you gone without eating? Can you imagine yourself in that state of … More Hungry
“I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.” ― Veronica Roth What I live by, and do on my “weak-days,” until my “weak-ends.” (A summary) When life gets too complicated.I go simple. When a buffalo sees a storm coming. They walk towards it. … More “Weak-days.” “Weak-ends.”
“A Cleverly Named Blog” with Aubrey 