Now

I feel like such a whiner. Though I am still fairly down, I have buoyed myself up on a raft of progress and am no longer spiraling into terror. Hooray? So I must now list some “magical cures” for sudden depressive flashes:– Take a walk– Narrate your life [preferably as you walk, with a friend […]

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My Self

I wish there was a reason to cry. Because then it would make sense and I would be able to – without guilt, without fear of my own emotions. I would be able to express without thought, without judgment. But instead there is no reason. There is the sound of my breath as it moves […]

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Reflections on a Busy Life

I was listening to Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father again today, and I started to realize how all of his values have been shaped.The messages of his campaign are quite similar to the life lessons he wrote about throughout that memoir; his beliefs as contrasted with those of Malcolm X and the ideas imparted […]

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Self-Love

I am beautiful. And sexy. And confidant and independent and loving. And a great friend and a potential girlfriend, wife and mother. I love myself. And I need to hear it.This week has been an absolute self-esteem crusher. We aren’t even at the pinnacle point, and yet I am feeling battered and cast to the […]

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Cake

Today, I got sick.Really sick – I still can’t talk without sounding like a golem or some other fantastical creature that eludes my recollection at the moment. I’m doing better now, but I really hope that this throat thing goes away by this Friday [a.k.a. when we’re opening the play].Although, a good consolation prize was […]

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Just Visiting

Jezabelle threw her needles across the chair and hurled herself down after them. The faint scent of his cigarette breath was still on the pillows. She tossed them away and sighed.She was lonely.There was no other way to say it, no sugarcoated term to make everything better – all the girls had figured it out […]

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