Earlier this week, I took my boyfriend to the Gen Art Film Festival for the screening of (500) Days of Summer, the movie marketed as “not a love story.” Without ruining any key plot points, I’ll simply say that for all that candidness, I was still prepared for it to be nothing else but a [...]
“I get the sense you think I’m going to up and leave you at any moment,” he said with those piercing eyes that see right through me and that slight southern whisper that I tease him about but really love. “It doesn’t have to be that way you know. I can be the constant in [...]
The mounting moaning, the slap of skin on skin, the playful laughter, the smack of an ass. No, I haven’t been watching porn or The Tudors (holy hell, that show’s like soft-core). I’ve been treated yet again to my own pornographic audio courtesy of the reliable Hormone Factory next door.
At this point, I don’t know [...]
Lately, I somehow seem to have unwittingly become the emotional sounding board of single late 30s/ early 40s men. It’s uncanny. Granted, I guess you could say I have some “experience” with dating older (in some cases significantly) and divorced men (one with a child), so if anything, I’m an empathetic listener. But, while I [...]
I harp on my family a lot, but I know that they will always be there for me and will always be on my side- even when I’m factually wrong (this is especially true of my mom who has actually proven this on occasion). For that I will always feel loved by them. But, as [...]
Most days I don’t think twice about commuting an hour and a half on public transportation to a job that’s 23.2 miles from my apartment. This is not one of those days.
After nearly four years, I may be used to the perks and perils of the reverse commute- always a prime seat on the train, [...]
Sometimes I’m such a little girl. It’s a sad confession I make to you. I’m a twenty-nine year old woman who successfully (somehow) maneuvered her way through college and graduate school into (mostly) gainful employment, who moved herself from a small town surrounded by corn and soybean to a city of 2 million, who survived [...]
