The Pivotal Moment
It’s a particular moment in one’s life where everything changes. You are one person before the moment and a different person after it.
It could be a positive experience, such as a marriage or some kind of religious epiphany. Or it could be, as in my grandmother’s case, a decidedly negative experience. We’ve never [...]
Jan
27
Jan
15
Those closest to me already know that shortly before I moved to Sweden I had just ended a very co-dependant and abusive relationship that lasted for ten years. I’m still trying to come to terms with why I allowed it go on for as long as it did, and why any intelligent and attractive woman [...]
Jan
5
Project Mayhem
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I meant to write this last night and post it before posting my Project Mayhem piece, but I never got around to it. My laziness is pathological…sometimes.
Project Mayhem is meant to be the literary/blog equivalent of turning over a New Year’s leaf. It was conceived by my friends High Priestess Kang and Ming the Merciless [...]
Jan
5
When the word Grace was revealed to me after I lifted up my finger from the dictionary page, my first impulse was to choose a different word. This word is too complicated, I thought. It has several meanings and uses, not to mention religious connotations.
Then I thought, why not? Grace is a very positive attribute. [...]


