Honest Author

as written September 13, 2012 Brent shared with me recently that he had been approached by someone interested in publishing his story. The story that I wrote…about his life in his early twenties…that took the first couple years we were married to finish. Where I sat him down every night and let him talk, and [...]

Skype

as sung to me December 19, 2011 Brent called me up, asking if I’d Skype with him. Sure, why not. So the screen brightens, and there he is – blond hair and deep blues, smiling back at me. “I wrote a song,” he said, holding a light yellow guitar. “And I want to play it [...]

The Needles Story

as written October 20, 2011 A recurring thought: Am I still holding myself back from a relationship? The affirmation of that inward-projected question resonated around Brent… When I read Katrina’s blog last night, remembering her awful terrifying fear of needles, one memory sliced through the forgotten abyss and had me in tears, sobbing in one minute [...]

Fish Out Of Water

as written July 31, 2011 Brent came over again Thursday night, and the first thing he said was, “Cam lives in this complex.” Cam, the addict he OD’d with on our anniversary whom I promptly cut out of my memory. Small world. And it’s not lost on me how intimately close the horrific shit lays [...]

Newton’s Unwritten Law

as written July 28, 2011 “For every Goliath, there is a stone.”  I found myself at Family Group this week. I needed it. Whenever I feel the need to be stripped, to have the hardness cracked, when I’m ready to really see what’s hurting me – I find myself here. The Woman humbles me. Her compassion [...]

keep looking »

  • Recent Posts

  • Categories

  • Recent Comments

  • Archives

    • Get the button, share the love