I didn’t sign up for this…

Sometimes I think Man, I did NOT sign up for this. I did not pen my name On this crazy ass contract. For the 4am wake ups. For the monthly bouts of pain. For the hurling of painful events In q u i c k succession. I did NOT sign up for this. I didn’t…

Paul

Suggested soundtrack: The Winner Is – Mychael Danna and DeVotchKa  I’ve always tried to be weirdly honest on this blog. I do this because I believe in transparency (even if it’s only with strangers) but also because I think it plays into the central goal of this blog: to better understand myself and my relationships by closely…

A Day of Love

I expected to feel alone or empty a lot of today. I actually did at certain parts of the day. Texting my friends and seeing how many people I wasn’t seeing on the day of love made me a touch sad. However, an amazing thing happened in the late morning. It started earlier in the…

Shelter

Have you ever been quietly content? There is much on your mind. There are crazy emotions swirling up in the noggin and in your heart but there isn’t anything you can do about them as you sit so you choose to be quietly content with things as they are. Currently quietly content. Family, friends, lovers,…

Extended Metaphor 

If I burst you’ll know If I shatter the pieces was fly to the corners of the earth If my heart drops it will be on national television for all the world to see We are animals  With emotions  And feelings And urges  And wants And needs  Many of us try to go through life…