I really can't believe that it's almost been four months since I last updated this journal. I don't even know who would still be interested in my goings-on, when there's facebook and my other blogs, but here are some highlights ( Read more... )

An informal poll for anyone who has experience love long-distance:

• Have you ever successfully been in a long-distance relationship?
  
• How long did it last?
  
• Did it start off being a long distance from the beginning?
  
• What were your biggest challenges that you faced as a couple? as an individual in this relationship?
  
• How did you handle those ( Read more... )

tomorrow (oh, today now) the V man returns after a week a way. I've taken the time and space for me, mainly doing a lot of reading and a good bit of writing. I read a couple really good YA books that have inspired my novel which had been sitting on the shelf for far too long. I've been inspired back to writing poetry. Some great NF books are ( Read more... )

Aspects of my former lives seem to be re-surfacing this season. Old friends and lovers are touching base again. My best friend of childhood and I have been reunited now that she’s back in New England. My best friend of the next stage of life and I are reconnecting now that her baby’s schedule is normalizing. S and I have been corresponding with a ( Read more... )

This was written over a significant period of time, and I am only now ready to let it go and be read. I welcome any and all comments but bear in my mind this occurred in the past.I am standing on the corner of the Family Planning aisle of CVS, feeling like I’m 17 years old all over again. I’m over ten years older now, but I am just as self- ( Read more... )