I’m in a funk.
Here are some of my reasons:
Too many of my soul-mate friends live far away.
Lots of people died this week, and I knew some.
Relationships are hard work and sometimes you give when you really, really want to take.
My playlists are getting old.
I’m at war with my body.
The only thought I had at 3:00 [...]
It has come to my attention that we are at war. With fat people. The “War on Obesity”. This implies that “we” are normal, thin, good people, and “they”, those blasted fat people, are lazy, unhealthy, and just plain pesky. They need to be more like us.
Now, wait a minute. History is clear that every [...]
There’s nothing like a woman who knows who she is and what she wants.
That’s gonna be me.
Too much of my time is spent reacting to life as it comes at me. Or being bored with the lack of life coming at me. But I’m learning. So when I started to feel lonely, isolated, and stir-crazy [...]
If Another Woman carried my child,
Knit him together,
Gave him life and birth,
How would I regard her?
I would love her.
Thank her stretch marks,
Adore her new, changed skin.
Bless her altered body,
Praise her womb.
I would not be ashamed of her mothered figure,
Full, transitioning, worn.
For it housed my most precious love,
The dearest child,
My son.
But it was not Another Woman.
It [...]