The Things I Carry: Sometimes I get love backwards (Part 9)
And often I find myself standing in the wrong place. Over. And over. And over…
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And often I find myself standing in the wrong place. Over. And over. And over…
November 28, 2011
Estrangement alienation: separation resulting from hostility alienation: the feeling of being alienated from other people estranged – alienated: caused to be unloved estranged – Having become a stranger, of one who formerly was close, as a relative, friend, lover, or spouse to arouse especially mutual enmity or indifference in where there had formerly been love,… [Read more…]
November 25, 2011
I broke my ankle last week. Okay. That is a bit hyperbolic. I only chipped the bones in my ankle. Essentially, I fell into a hole. More specifically I fell into an erosion ditch. Well, I landed on a rock jumping over an erosion ditch. The rock was big. And round. Okay! Okay! I fell… [Read more…]
June 13, 2011
My grandfather died last August. His death significantly changed my worldview. Ralph’s death helped me see the mythology of my family is not the reality. And honestly, it pissed me off. It pissed me off because for the first time I was able, with the guidance of a caring but uninvolved friend, to see the… [Read more…]
April 24, 2011
The problem with being an emotional hoarder is that you never throw anything away. Which is after all, the definition of a person who hordes. Pretty soon there isn’t room for anything new because the old is crowding up the place. There isn’t room for new events, memories, people or opportunities. It is just like… [Read more…]
March 7, 2010
For a long time my choices tied my life into a seemingly inescapable Gordian Knot: a knot inadvertently binding those I love (and hated) to a life of chaos and confusion. I tried everything I could think of to untie the knot. Often my best thinking made it worse. ”The significant problems we face cannot be… [Read more…]
January 10, 2010
Not wearing a condom demonstrates a serious lack of foresight. Therefore, to suggest I would somehow know what it means to "do the right thing" gives me more credit then I showed I deserved. Wait, maybe that means I am stupid...
December 27, 2009
My daughter hates me. Why shouldn’t she?
December 24, 2009
As my Marine Corp Drill Instructor might say: “Good initiative, poor judgment.” Sometimes, it wasn’t even good initiative. Lessons for life - the good, the bad and the ugly.
December 21, 2009
About four years ago I read a letter to Dear Abby. As I read the letter, and Abby's response, a vile bile rose up in my throat. I was deeply sickened by Abby's judgmental and sexist response to a highly immature and selfish mother.
March 8, 2012
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