really, it's been too long ( Read more... )

and finally this weekend i let loose the flood, bloody flecks and all, because if i am not speaking my mind i no longer recognize myself in the mirror and of all the things he will take away, the mirror will not be one of them. so i was honest and i was eloquent. i was biting in the way i needed to be; i drove him from me and cast my nets and ( Read more... )

this is more so that i have a list than anything else. feel free to contribute. seriously ( Read more... )

really, it's not. it's just--a combination of fierce curiousity and a deep-seated belief that nothing's going to go really wrong, not terribly, horribly, irreversibly wrong, and what's wrong with testing the waters? until you push the envelope, you don't know how far it'll go. i've never actually understood that particular metaphor: push the ( Read more... )