We were all standing, some female colleagues and I, waiting for the light to change. She said something, looked at me directly and as I smiled and said hello, she pulled tight on a thin silver wire wrapped around both hands, about a foot of slack between them. “I’d love to wrap this around your […]
Category: Emotional vomit
Once you find someone in the world who makes sense to you…
…there’s no going back to who you were before. It’s like, as long as nobody makes sense, it’s easy to just keep trying to figure yourself out, even long after you feel pretty fine with who you are. But getting the chance to know just one incredible person who is your kind of weirdo instantly […]
Don’t take advice from crackpots on the internet
This is my standing disclaimer for any stupid shit I advocate for on this site. Be smart. Listen to yourself and people you trust to help you make good choices. Don’t take advice from crackpots like me on the internet unless you’ve really considered and vetted your moves. That’s all.
I love how dogs get bed head on their faces
I get that too, but it isn’t cute. 🙂
At some point, I ran out of things to hate about myself. Turns out I am just awesome.
Life used to be an endless parade of effort to fix and compensate for my destructive and reprehensible character traits. While it is tempting to believe that the only problem there was self-loathing, I don’t actually believe that was true. I was sporting a good portfolio of legitimately gross and crazy personal habits and challenges, […]
Double date
Not the fun kind with jumbo tubs of popcorn and Cards Against Humanity. I mean when you go on a date and ten minutes into it realize you’ve already been on this date with this person. And he lied to get laid and then disappeared. I knew his face. “You’re very familiar,” says me. We […]
Every post I write makes me almost throw up
It’s how I know whether it is true or not. I can sit here and comfortably write bullshit for hours and feel fine. But when I finally get to the truth, it gets birthed quickly and with physical discomfort. Every single one of these posts, no matter the flavor, has come out fast and turned […]
I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth…
…and I don’t know what happened, but suddenly I realized I had been standing there practicing the robot for like five minutes. I don’t remember deciding to practice the robot. I don’t remember starting the robot. It was like blacking out and waking up doing the robot naked in my bathroom. I wasn’t doing it […]
A 25 year scavenger hunt for love, through a forest of sex and acceptance
I lost count of my partners when my numbers passed my age in my early 20’s. After 3 cancelled engagements by age 22 and sincere, heartfelt efforts at trying to be a good mate, it was clear I didn’t have the chips to play the poker game of love, with myself or with another person. […]
How the people who care about you care about the people you care about
It doesn’t take long for the people who love you to start to care lots about the people who bring magic to your world and make you happy. It’s been a fun holiday season with lots of beautiful friends and parties and it is warm and sweet how everyone asks about him. “Is he coming […]