If you’re a parent, can you imagine not visiting your children in 8 years? Neither can I. Neither can most people with a pulse. For parents who abandon their kids and never […]
Love + Absence = ?
The Hardest Truth
Greetings, Dear Readers! Long time no babble about my life to the ether. If you are somehow still here, may I just tell you that things are so much better in our […]
The back of my son’s head.
If I asked you to provide imagery for the word darkness, you might describe the night sky. A sealed, windowless room. The darkest shade of black on a color palette. There would […]
Crime Theory meets Cheaterspeak.
What is the difference – ethically speaking – between a common criminal and a man (or woman) who cheats on their spouse? I’d argue very little. Human values are formed by internalizing social […]
The HomeWrecker Games.
The HomeWrecker Games And so it goes, my classy home-wrecking friend, I’m here, late at night, checking out Facebook again. I hope you’ve been practicing for ‘HomeWrecker of the Year’… They don’t […]
the caretaker.
This post ran previously in 2015 After Honey left, I took the babies and a moving Pod filled with whatever would fit, and we drove back to my home state to live […]
Rise.
Fall. Fall hard on my knees. Tears and screaming and pointless pleas. Though the world collapses in on me, there’s somewhere else I need to be. Diapers and tears and endless […]
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
I’ve known for some time that I should see a counselor. I’m not equipped to handle the ‘skein of fuckedupedness’ that I unwittingly attempt to untangle every day (shout out to the AMAZING Chump Lady). I feel like a grade school teacher trying to land a 747. So, I began therapy last week. The therapist didn’t know quite […]
We, the disillusioned.
Too bad you can’t move on, Dear. It’s not as though someone died. It’s a trifle – not a tragedy – That you loved someone who lied. Yes there’s pain, but […]
Crime Theory meets Cheaterspeak.
What is the difference – ethically speaking – between a common criminal and a man (or woman) who cheats on their spouse? I’d argue very little. Human values are formed by internalizing social […]
Honey and the Homewrecker. 