Sometimes I let fear of the unknown control me. It’s like there’s a boggart in the closet and I’m afraid to go in there because I know he will assume the form of my biggest anxiety, because I know I will wilt in front of him, and I can’t admit to being that weak. Weakness … Continue reading The Irrationality of Fear
I grew up with women, a whole gaggle of them if you asked me back then because it felt that way. From the moment I emerged from the womb I was surrounded by enough estrogen to choke a horse (imagine that), so I’m no stranger to emotion, to such honest emotion that I’ve been comfortable … Continue reading A Sort of Baptism
“Birds scatter at the least provocation because it’s better to be wary and wrong than to be content and dead.” ~Theodicus Why do people disappear? Someone once told me that everyone is in your life for a season, and that some people’s seasons just last longer than others. If my life were a television show … Continue reading Scattering Birds
Dear Journal, You know how it is when you haven’t thought about something for a while, and then someone shows up from that same time period and you’re thrust back into it? And it usually happens with negative things instead of positive things, like some kind of twisted irony machine tuned to a certain frequency … Continue reading Dear Journal: Streaks On My Heart
“I hate you and then I love you. It’s like I want to throw you off a cliff… then rush to the bottom to catch you.” The most complicated thing in the world is love, and if you think it’s not then you have never truly been in love. Love isn’t easy, even when you … Continue reading Complicated, Part 6
Dear Journal, There are some mornings when I wake up and I feel like I can take on the world, no matter what’s been happening in my life, or what’s on deck that day. I get out of bed, I expand my lungs, and I reach for the sky, knowing that even when the negatives … Continue reading Dear Journal: That Feeling
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