Relationships & Dating
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Building a life worth living
I’ve been on a new adventure since the breakup that occurred almost two months ago. The first part has been grieving the life I used to have when I was in that relationship. For about a month everything felt like it was going well. After two years of applying to different jobs, I finally had…
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Heartbreak
We were children when I fell in love with you You were the prettiest thing in the zoo that was middle school Never had I wanted something more than you I fell for you the very first time Those blue eyes had to be mine I clung to you because I had no one else…
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To Plan A Party
Am I the only one who likes to host parties? It would seem to be incongruent with who I am and how I move through the world, but don’t be mistaken, I like to throw a nice party. Don’t get me wrong, once the guest count rises over five or six, I’m overstimulated, but intimate…
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Happy New Year!
I’ve been confronting a lot of uncomfortable emotions lately. I classify painful or unpleasant emotions as sadness, anger, disappointment, or anything else that accompanies a sad or disheartening experience. When I stopped relying on food to dull my feelings, I realized how much I’d been burying. Now that I feel these emotions, I’m trying different…
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Practicing Empathy
I don’t normally venture into controversial topics and I do not like talking about politics even with people that I agree with. There is a war regarding the holidays I was unaware of how strongly people felt about it until recently. The war I’m referring to is over whether to say “Merry Christmas” or “Happy…
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Christmas Party
I attended my work Christmas party this past week. I haven’t been to a large number of holiday parties in my life and I wasn’t sure what to expect. The best parties I’d experienced up until this year were when I worked at Publix. The store manager would barbecue and we would have baking competitions.…
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Power of Patience
Life often looks different than we expect. I certainly didn’t expect to be such a late bloomer. I thought I’d be married by the age of twenty-five. I thought I’d stick with the career I wanted in the eighth grade. I had all these plans. I thought I knew what I wanted and needed when…
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Importance of Self-Care
I would like to take this opportunity to persuade those who think self-care is selfish to a new way of thinking. My opinion is that self-care is one of the most selfless things a person can do. I have found that I am a better person when I take care of myself. I have found…
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Power of Love
We are now in the throes of the holiday season and I’ve been meditating on the power of love. I don’t put much stock in the Hallmark version of the attachment. That version of love has always seemed too easy and too clean. It also never looked like the love I experienced. The love that…
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Changing Plans
I’ve been having an ongoing debate with myself for over a year now. I always thought I’d have kids. I can remember riding the bus home from school, daydreaming about the adventures my two kids and I would take. When I was younger, I only ever thought about the fun parts of parenthood and I…
Living on the Spectrum 