Let’s talk about something most of us have a hard time acknowledging, identifying, and accepting – in ourselves and others. Narcissism. There is a pervasiveness of narcissism in our culture. Social media, society, and even our president encourages it. Post...
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I looked into the fire and felt entirely and utterly alone. The room was full of people. Some reached out to me. But I just kept staring. A man who didn’t seem to talk much came up to me, tapped...
Continue ReadingSlogging Through The Muck – With Love
I’ve talked about suicidal thoughts a lot here. The reason I do is because I know a lot of people have them. In fact, I think everyone at some point in their life has them. And society shames us for...
Continue ReadingBig Fish
I have this friend who has always told stories that sound too big to be real. Big fish tales. I’ve told him that sometimes, I wonder if he is a pathological liar. But I’ve recognized that he has a big...
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I’m always writing philosophical things. (Have you noticed? ;)) But what’s really getting at me isn’t all this philosophical stuff. At least I don’t think so. Maybe it’s just the reality – what’s right in front of me. I avoid...
Continue ReadingA Real-Life Thought Experiment
So something big happened in the last week or two. Or could have been big. Yeah, I guess it was big anyway. All my assumptions about what I thought I wanted were challenged. Well, I guess come to think of...
Continue ReadingKnock, Knock
I wrote this post about polyamory a while ago. It became a bit viral in the polyamory community. There were very extreme reactions to it. Positive and negative. And looking back on the post, I remember what I was feeling...
Continue ReadingHuman Again
[Disclosure: This post will discuss rape, specifically my own. Be warned if this may trigger you.] I have this book I own. I don’t even remember when I picked it up at a used bookstore…or why. Sometimes, it feels like...
Continue ReadingDepressive Days
The pill I am on does not remove depressive days. It only (theoretically) reduces the number of episodes by 50% and reduces the number of days and severity of the episodes. Hence, I still go into what I call the...
Continue ReadingStories Revisited
I used to write. A lot. Like…a lot lot. Hours a day sometimes. From high school through to college. Almost every day. So needless to say, I have a whole archive of writing I will likely never read. It’s just...
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