My sister called me about 3:00 on the Friday afternoon before Memorial Day weekend. “I have breast cancer,” she said.Her husband and two 20-something daughters had already left town for various long weekend festivities. She had planned three days of being blissfully alone and catching up on chores, uninterrupted. She discovered a hard, pea-sized lump…

Until I claimed it, the pullout sofa had rarely functioned as a bed. It was planted in the middle of Jen’s living room/eating area, upholstered in a beige cotton that easily picked up dirt. The sheets didn’t match. They were leftovers from sets that had once been complete. Jen handed me a sleeping pill. “Just…

What was I thinking when I thought being a friend with benefits with my ex-husband was a good idea when I knew he was seeing someone else, with whom he just spend this Valentine’s weekend with, yet he stopped by yesterday to see me. Talk about feeling like the other woman, oh and by the…

What was I thinking? I was thinking Of his lips His cute butt His perfect voice His sweet touch I didn’t see the sad behind the grey of his eyes I didn’t see the scared human With a twisted back And willowy chest So soft and pale like a baby’s I saw only the flicker…

I’m lucky, in a way. I really only have one boyfriend in my life who if he called I would hang up on, if I saw him on the street I would cross to the other side, if he ‘friended’ me on Facebook I would block him. Silas. He was my first and worst relationship.I…

“The magic woman of the forest prepares to battle the evil lily pads.” I was a freshman in college and working as a grip for a senior’s BFA film project, which meant sitting with ten other grips on a once-white sofa that smelled of stale beer, ignoring the history of sexual acts preformed on it,…

I’m sure you have heard the saying “the heart wants what it wants”. Well, my heart inexplicably always wants the person who is the most capable of damaging it. Perhaps in a previous life I was a masochist and just a twinge of that lives on within me, I can’t be sure. I was a…

First, go with friends to a bar on a snowy night. Feel at your best, like you could be anyone. Smile, be radiant and throw your head back when you laugh. Be introduced to the friend of a friend of a friend who has been watching you from a dark corner. Talk for hours about…

Every so often you run into a couple who is happily married and loves to tell the story of how they were “high school sweethearts”. I abhor these couples, primarily because my “high school sweetheart” turned out to be an egotistical jerk. That’s the nicest way to put it – I’ve phrased it much more…

You didn’t get it. Didn’t get how it is the way it is. How falling leads to fallen, and fallen brings fear to ever get back up and try again for Love. I wanted to not get that. But I did. I knew as well as you how it feels when you push two opposing…