A Woman Under Construction

I've been spinning words around in my head. Trying to make a cloth from this thread. But I keep losing words for images and touches and ...

Falling in love with him was like walking into the ocean. I knew where I was going the moment my feet touched the sand. I was drawn by the ...

I'm never going to stop being angry. Like a tree growing around a fence, I don't know how to let go. Most times now I think I'...

Take a deep breath. Get comfortable. I've got some things to tell you. And some of the things are going to take longer to process than t...

But he is real. He is unexpected reactions and opinions and actions. That silence and burst of laughter at my antics. He is arms around ...

Is it the slowly approaching tide, inching over the beach with quiet but inevitable increments? Toes once pressed firmly in sun-warmed sand ...

Something has slowly been occurring to me over the last couple of months. This is boyfriend-related. Bear with me (or leave, I guess?). At...

I feel like I spent the first 20-something years of my life waiting. Waiting and trying to be okay. A little bit like last year when we we...

I met this guy. I'll back up. I joined this group on facebook. Single Adult Nerdfighters. I wanted to date, and I thought maybe that...

3 years later. People were asking.

Sometimes I think I can't take the straight path to anything. I have to take all the side streets and dead-ends before I'm comfortab...

I haven't written in so long. Sometimes I feel like a balloon being slowly inflated. Eventually, the pressure gets to be too much and I ...

Lately I find I've been unreasonably stressed. I worry about money and my future and my (not-shrinking-fast-enough) debt. I worry about ...

This dance of too much not enough and just right keeps me stumbling. Perhaps I was born with feet made for moving forward and not for ...

He didn't know the value of her love, she gave it to him freely. She gave him a thousand little things he never noticed. What now? Wh...