All posts for the month May, 2009

Pleasure Bouquets: Perspective

Am I having the time of my life or does it suck? Are my relationships doomed or full of potential? Am I excited by tonight’s plans or dreading them? I can answer any of these questions either way, and the answer would be valid. I have a choice, to go negative or positive, regardless of [...]

For Jamie

My friend, Jamie, died a few days ago. Her body has been turned to ash. My emotions are still raw. I rebel at the idea that she is gone. I still can’t speak of her in the past tense. Her presence is too powerful to be relegated to history. I’m not ready to say goodbye. [...]

Pleasure Finds Friday: Attila and Napoleon

Gnomes make me smile. I have no rational explanation for this, but I accept it. I’ve always been fascinated by fairytales – at first, because I thought they were real and then, later, because I knew they were not. I also get great pleasure from lawn ornaments, in other people’s yards. So when I saw [...]

One Time TMI

This may be the one and only time you will find me participating in the following… Welcome to TMI Thursdays! As LiLu always says: Join us all in humiliating the crap out of yourself every Thursday by sharing some completely tasteless, wholly unclassy, “how many readers can I estrange THIS week??” TMI story about your [...]

Pleasure Bouquets: Aliens

Sometimes I feel like an alien in my own skin. I look down at my body and I am shocked by what I see. Where did that roll come from, or that bruise, or that wrinkle? At other times, I feel like an alien in the world. Particularly when events don’t make sense. Take today, [...]

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