What are you hiding for? Go on, tell me yours. I’ve told so many lies in my life. I find it less and less useful, the older I get, but that doesn’t mean I’m above it. Lying’s a tool, as is the truth. Feel superior to me all you want, but the way I see it, … Continue reading The Lie I’ve Spent My Whole Life Telling
When is it Okay to Take Back a Gift?
The power of reclaiming objects. A long time ago, in a fit of pride, I bought my significant other a watch. It wasn’t exactly a designer watch, a small step up from the plastic watches children run around with in their childhood. I gave it to my boyfriend as a gift late one evening. Surprisingly, … Continue reading When is it Okay to Take Back a Gift?
I Can’t Get No
Is there a difference between being happy and being satisfied? Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash There’s a line I kept feeding myself, before now. I wasn’t going to be one of those people who was always trying to change, because I wanted to be happy. To me, satisfaction and happiness were hand in hand. If nothing else, … Continue reading I Can’t Get No
Trying to Write is Giving Me Panic Attacks
And other emotional whiplash Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash My mother loves to tell the tale of how I wrote my first story at the age of three. It was a comic book, believe it or not. I never really kept up with the illustrating side. I couldn’t animate to save my life, though … Continue reading Trying to Write is Giving Me Panic Attacks
Me, The Grouch
Photo by Sara Rolin on Unsplash I’m having one of those days where I’m deeply unhappy. Do you ever have one of those days? I ask that fairly rhetorically, because how could you not? Seems terribly human, unhappiness. We’re capable of such greatness, and something must motivate us for that part. We can spend so much time and … Continue reading Me, The Grouch
Loving a Memory
And missing someone who’s standing here. A surprise love note put in a workday lunch. There’s a version of my ex that lives in a picture. It’s a typical picture, the type anyone would have. A candid shot, snapped by a friend in the warm light of a late evening. I think he’s just told a … Continue reading Loving a Memory
A Ghost Valentine’s
How to deal when your breakup was only a month ago. My ex-boyfriend asked me out on Valentine’s in 2015. We broke up on January 19th this year. Photo by Gades Photography on Unsplash Photo by Gades Photography on Unsplash I spent most of the day on Valentine’s wondering if I was supposed to be upset. There are plenty of people out … Continue reading A Ghost Valentine’s
The Self-Imposed Deadline
Struggling when it matters. Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash Without going into too many details, it’s important to know that I’m having a lot of trouble writing today. There are a couple reasons why, and I could write a whole article about that. Maybe I will, some other day. But today. Today I am struggling. It shouldn’t be important. … Continue reading The Self-Imposed Deadline
I Know I’m an Average Writer
And I hate it so much. Picture courtesy of free photo library PX Here It’s funny, no one has ever told me my writing is bad. All my life, people seem to believe in me, seem to see in me an author I’ve never actually been. (Being an author would mean you’ve been published.) Not one single time has someone … Continue reading I Know I’m an Average Writer
Can You Cohabitate with Your Ex?
Or, rather, can I? Photo by Christian Stahl on Unsplash Today it’ll be one week since my boyfriend of four years and I broke up. Thankfully, it was extremely amicable, as neither of us can afford somewhere else to live. Even if we could, it would take time to arrange or set up. So today marks … Continue reading Can You Cohabitate with Your Ex?
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