November 17, 2015 Crisis Support
Goodbye, “an act of parting”, a “farewell” from Dictionary.com. What the dictionary won’t tell you is why we need goodbyes. Because we do, we need to be able to say, so long, be safe, go on, God bless, or sometimes,…
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Living with the Effects of Cheating This one’s been knocking about in the old brain for probably my entire life. When it gets tired of knocking, it reverts to lurking. And when that fails, it simmers down to a low…
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Love and the Worthy I was in incredible pain today, and I imagined that if I were truly ill, truly seriously mortally ill, this would be the kind of pain that comes with it. Unassailable, mythological, Promethean. Let me leave…
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Tears at the NAIA I am finally checking in for my return flight to Los Angeles. It is Sunday, December 2nd and the NAIA (Ninoy Aquino International Airport) in Manila, looks deceptively crowded from the outside. Mainly as families and…
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“So anyway”, she continued breathily, “he had the most gorgeous blue eyes ever but darling, the shoes…” and the sentence trails off into a gravid pause as she shudders her shoulders daintily. Raise of hands for any one who has…
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January 23, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
Ah, the seductive siren call of that ever-glowing screen beckoning with syrupy promises of love, acceptance, and the ever fantastic opportunity to present yourself as whatever you want to be. All of a sudden, you can say you have hair…
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November 25, 2014 Skin and Body
Alright, I admit it. I DID spend one Christmas singing along to “What do you get a Wookie for Christmas (if he already has a comb)”, it WAS a nice little break from the usual suicide fare about being alone,…
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July 14, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
Marriage: “an interpersonal relationship with governmental, social, or religious recognition, usually intimate and sexual, and often created as a contract.” From Wikipedia. Interestingly enough, Wikipedia also provides a boxed listing of “Close Relationships” on the same page. Alphabetically, the word…
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