What Needed to be Said
This 2500 words a day challenge is kicking my ass. That doesn’t mean I am not enjoying it. It does mean that it is far more challenging than I first imagined. Hmm…Isn’t that how most things are? At least the stuff that really matters. Let me think about that a minute.
Going Deep and Playing for Keeps
I hate fluff. I hate superficial crap. Small talk. Pleasantries. I hate FAKE. But of course, we know, I AM all those things, right? (You can’t see in others what’s not in you.) You see, for days now, I’ve been avoiding an email in Facebook. It was lovely and all but I just couldn’t figure [...]
What was I thinking?
Or more appropriately, why did I put my a** on the line and enter this contest? Fear. Plain and simple. When the suggestion came to enter the contest (from someone I respect deeply), I was shocked. The only reason I had given her the blog address (remember, I don’t promote this) was to get some [...]
It ain’t what you think
Over the past few days, I’ve been having a lively email discussion with an old friend about my belief system. When we lived and worked in the same city, we were both life-long Baptists. We often discussed god, faith, the bible, heaven and hell. You can imagine her shock when I fell out of love [...]
The unending torture of “not enough”
I was on the phone last night with my best friend, busting her chops about her personal life. I’m good like that. I can always see your shit. Trust me. And I ain’t got no problems calling you on it, either. Thankfully, she’s the same way and is smart enough to do it in a [...]



