Tag: love
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Sex, Love and Relationships (Part 6): An Independent Woman
I know, I know…this topic has been done and by much better writers than me but today I need to write it. I was raised by two very independent women. My Gramma raised 3 kids by herself during The Depression and my Mom raised the 3 of us by herself. And let’s be clear, Gramma…
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Sex, Love and Relationships (Part 5): What is love anyway?
I was talking to a boyfriend once a very long ago and he asked me how many men I had loved. Now, let’s be clear, he wasn’t asking how many men I had slept with, he was asking how many men I had felt love for. I don’t recall the number I gave him but…
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First Kisses
I’ve always loved kissing. It’s fun. It can be sweet. It can be passionate. It can be quick or long or deep. Sometimes they are big, wet, squishy kisses. All the kisses are good! Some years ago, I noticed myself shifting from Mother to Crone. I could feel this shift to becoming the old one,…
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To love deeply…if not well
In my 20s, I loved a man in the way only the young love: with every ounce of my being and with a wee bit of crazy. I lived for him. I would have died for him or killed for him. And I knew he loved me. We were young and he was a guy…
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Oh the feelings!
Yes, sure I am an alcoholic and a drug addict. I have also been diagnosed with depression and bipolar (although when I was diagnosed bipolar, it was still called manic-depressive so that may say something). I have two parents that both had problems with alcohol: neither of them ever did anything to recover from it,…
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The Courage of Visibility
I don’t know what year or even what era it was when we all started talking about “being seen” but I do recall thinking it was a pretty cool concept. Like so many things, I think we have taken it over the top and if I hear “I see you” from one more person who…
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Some poems I wrote
C. 2008 Fine Whatever you need Is mine to give But it will cost you Skin off your back Your self esteem And mine But ask I’ll see what I can do I make no promises —————————- 2-1-09 Someone who doesn’t make my house seem smaller But makes my home larger Someone who helps with…
Claiming My Voice: From the darkness, the light emerges. 