Goodbye, I Hardly Knew You…

I have been lucky enough to be relatively untouched by death in my life.  (Well, correction, in the adult life I have good conscious memory of rather than the childhood I subconsciously choose to keep blurry. )  My great-grandmother passed away after years of dementia – and it was a blessing.  My paternal grandparents passed [...]

Isolation

I’m feeling isolated.  Admittedly by my own actions, and yes, I think I knew what I was doing at the time.  I realized the friendships I had in my life were too surface-y to provide the kind of support I needed, so I withdrew from them until I could get a clear picture of what [...]

Absence makes the mind grow fuzzier

I’ve been back home a little over 24 hours.  N and I went to Austin to visit some good friends; we were there from last Wednesday through yesterday morning.  It was a big trip, full of lots of mommy/daughter time, and time spent out of doors enjoying the 70 degree Texas weather in contrast to [...]

The S-E-X Post

Let’s talk about sex, baby.  Let’s talk about you and me… and her, and him, and them.  OK, now that that song is irredeemably stuck in your head, I’ll tell you what the hell I’m rambling on about.  Welcome to my sex life… Sex is often… umm, complex for a trauma survivor.  There are a [...]

In which I attempt to show you the wallpaper of my life…

I promised background.  It’s only fair – if expect anyone to read anything I’ve written, it must involve a little baring of the soul, right?  But since I wrote that sentence the other day, I’ve been procrastinating.  Where do I start?  What if I try and describe my ridiculously complicated life and end up writing [...]