To recap from Part 1... I'm sitting on the stairs, taking all of this in, when I hear the door start to open. My mom was back. Remember when I said telling me was a mistake?This is why. My mom looked at me, and like most moms, realized IMMEDIATELY something was wrong. I told her... Continue Reading →
Forgiveness and Second Guessing
Greetings and salutations. Hey, hope y'all had a happy Easter. Anyway, on to the meat of the post. As most of you know, I've had a rough go with an interpersonal/friendship/relationship crisis which has lead me to cut off contact for almost two months now while I figure out my feelings, and how to deal... Continue Reading →
Tales From the Couch: Part 4
Greetings and salutations! This was an emotional session. We talked about some work stuff, which alas, I won't go into here for various reasons. But suffice to say, it wasn't anything I particularly needed to happen with all the other crap going on in my life. I was asked to write a letter to Special... Continue Reading →
Paris: My visit as an 18 year old. Chapter 1, a teen in mourning.
Bonjour and Salutations! The awful tragedy of Notre Dame on fire allowed me to recall some of my memories of Paris during my travels. I've travelled a lot in my life, at least I think so, but Paris was the first trip without the family. It was with my school's French club, and I was... Continue Reading →
Special K
Greetings and salutations! It's been a while. Very busy week, very craptastic week, if I'm being honest, so here's hoping that this short week coming up is going to be a blessing. Yay for Good Friday, in both the secular and religious spheres of thought. Anyway, on to the meat of the post. Special K.... Continue Reading →
Dismiss What Offends Your Own Soul.
Greetings and salutations!!! Full head of steam tonight! I think one of the things that I'm learning is to reframe my relationships between friends, romantic partners and colleagues at work. I have to set appropriate boundaries so that things go well. Walt Whitman, who's one of my favourite poets, had this to say about living... Continue Reading →
Tales From The Couch: Part 3
Hey y'all. Emotionally tired today, and physically too. I wouldn't say it was a rough session, but it was a challenging one where I had to admit some hard truths to myself and accept them about others. So, first lesson. Sometimes people don't get closure. It's nice to have, but there's no guarantee that it'll... Continue Reading →
Am I in Love?
Short answer? I have no idea. However, that makes for a really crappy blog entry, so I'll soldier on. I'm a huge fan of musicals! One of my favourites, and one of the best ever is "My Fair Lady", movie version, starring Sir Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. At the end of the movie, Harrison's... Continue Reading →
Saying it out loud! (Part 2)
Greetings and salutations! My last post talked about the value of actually saying things out loud using your literal voice instead of using text, and all other forms of communication that are e-based. As I was reading it over, I was thinking that while I talked about the style of what to say, in terms... Continue Reading →
Saying it out loud
Greetings and salutations! In this day and age, we do a lot of communicating. But how much talking do we do? I mean in the literal sense of actually opening our mouths and speaking? Sure, we text, FB messenger, DMs on instagram, Snapchat, etc. But how often do we actually sit down, spend time and... Continue Reading →