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How many times have I sang this song? 23 Jun 2013 | 10:21 pm

New start! Huzzah! Yeah right. There is no new start, maybe just  a resolve to do better tomorrow and that should be good enough. I haven't blogged in a while because basic my life is up shit creek...

Broken Women of the South 13 Mar 2013 | 06:02 pm

I was going about the mundane task of shredding lettuce for a salad when my mother launched into a tale with chilling nonchalance and a blasé air. A woman we all knew, a woman trained in law enforceme...

Addicted to my partner 3 Mar 2013 | 10:52 pm

Sometimes the intensity with which I love my partner worries me. Both of us are in full agreement that we will never get married, live together or any of that stuff. And even when I have the curtains...

Mama said I am fat 25 Nov 2012 | 02:58 pm

So the other day my mother kind of took me to the top of the tallest building in Dubia, let me chill there for a bit and enjoy the view, then she pushed me over the edge. I am still reeling. Mom: You...

A Short Story - Falling 23 Nov 2012 | 02:11 pm

He was the kind who hung around the walls, leaning against a doorjamb here and there, skirting the edges of the room with an intent look in his eyes. I had been watching him as he nursed a glass with ...

On lies and blindness 14 Nov 2012 | 09:30 pm

I recently broke my spectacles.  Actually, what is the proper name for those? There are “glasses” and then there are “spectacles.”  Whichever, I no longer have the things I used to see with. There is ...

Tortured Metaphors and Faith 16 Oct 2012 | 08:46 pm

A rather large tear has ruined my beautiful quilt. Jagged and uncompromising, it offers a window to the turmoil beneath. Do I unstitch the whole square or do I just darn the hole? Life is not meant ...

A Criminal Encounter 27 Sep 2012 | 05:30 pm

When there is an itch, scratch it. That is the driving force behind two blog posts in as many days; that and the fact that I have a few days off work. Yesterday’s blog was a departure from the usual d...

Misunderstood Single Me 26 Sep 2012 | 04:18 pm

The lot of the 21st century single woman is to suffer being misunderstood. Or rather, more candidly, it is to wallow in the belief that she is greatly misunderstood. Decades after the Suffragettes beg...

Baby Daddy Issues 24 Jul 2012 | 09:59 pm

On Fathers' Day this year I went on what can only be termed a rant about the absent fathers women complain about on social networks every Fathers’ Day.  So impassioned were my sanctimonious ravings th...

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