They say that when we’re choosing a tennis partner it is best to find someone that plays better than us so that it will help to improve...

The first meaningful gift he gave me was a box full of dark challenges. From the outside, anyone might have mistaken them for sweet...

Thank you, rock bottom. I needed to see my dignity spilled all over the floor like a grown woman with a bladder problem in the middle of...

“Your girl is lovely Hubbell” ~ Katie to Hubbell in the closing moments of The Way We Were Katie’s words sting with bittersweet...

When I was in my twenties, I fell madly and deeply in love with a man I had met in college. He was an exchange student and so upon...

“You can’t build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.” ~ Ram Dass Once upon a time, in a house full of shattered hopes and dreams, there...

"Boundaries and standards” — sounds like a boring college lecture as dry as a nun’s _____. But after attending a rather not dry talk on...

We. Are. Confused. Open a car door, pull out a chair, help with a coat, pick up the check, give up your seat on public transport—what’s a...

Like a TV crime drama, I go over and over the possible details in my mind: The way they must have opened the gurney, lifted his body,...

a small murmuration in the distant sky toyed with my aging vision as it pulled left, right, up, down, in and out, behind, between, clouds...

“The Porcupine Dilemma” is an analogy that traces back to the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in the 1800s. It describes the...

Soul Fucking is not your parent’s intercourse. Nor is it your everyday run of the mill shag. It’s also not a hemped up, hit that,...

A number of readers asked me to provide a “how to” for my recent blog: “Soul Fucking.” While I did touch upon the elements in that blog,...

When I tune in and take a listen to my inner chatter, it's usually filled with detailed, nonsensical, swirling, truncated narratives...

the tongue recognizes sweet in a way the rest of the body cannot. i have often settled for what the tongue can discern long before any...

We all have inner floodgates that we keep tightly locked. Sometimes, just finding the key and placing it in our hands is enough for now....