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Here and Now

“If you want something that you’ve never had, you must do something that you’ve never done.”
I’ve had this quote in my head for weeks, maybe even for months now. I have been trying to use it as a personal mantra of sorts as I deal with the anxieties that going to college have stirred up [...]

' July 10th, 2010 at 04:50pm 6 comments

Sorry to those of you who were worried. I’ve been all caught up in the stress, guilt and worry of Nathan leaving for Canada . Now I am apparently caught up in the stress of talking to him as he realizes he made a mistake and shouldn’t have gone in the first place. I knew [...]

' April 20th, 2010 at 02:45pm 4 comments

Well, Thursday was right in her comment on my last post. I didn’t listen to her though. No, when the former friend himself expressed a desire to communicate I did it. I think that it was helpful to me in certain ways. For example, I was able to say some things that had sat boiling [...]

' February 24th, 2010 at 04:40pm 6 comments

I’m going to call this a rough draft because it originally came to me as a song when I was in the shower. I’ve been fucking around with the tune, and the verse chorus verse, and I don’t have a guitar or a piano here, and I got frustrated, to say the least! Still angry, [...]

' February 1st, 2010 at 11:40pm 2 comments

1993: I sat across from my psychiatrist. She never wore the same shoes twice. She asked me a lot of questions about my childhood. She asked me if I’d ever thought of harming my son in any way. I was horrified by the thought of hurting my baby boy. It had never occurred to me. [...]

' January 1st, 2010 at 12:11am 9 comments