Sex Ed

I declared last night my first official night as a single woman in the Fortress of Solitude.During the afternoon yesterday I spent one entire hour cleaning my fridge, and ended up ruining the dress I was wearing in the process. That of course serves me right for wearing a dress [...]

Jules Joseph Lefebvre's "Mary Magdalene in the Cave" (1876) I was raised Catholic, and within that faith, really only had two female role models - Mary the Virgin Mother of Christ, or Mary the Magdalene, who at the time, we were taught was a whore who repented her evil ways, [...]

Yesterday I was carried along on a sea of drunken, happy, sexy, reveling bodies to a Tiki party that turned out to be just what I needed. I had on my Hawaiian print dress, a little bit of sparkle, and some red lipstick, and off I went into the throng. [...]

That's it. I'm not dating anymore.My heart is too soft and squishy still, and I just can't deal. I don't know what I need to do to get myself back in the head space I need to be in to play the game, but offering myself up like this is [...]

Sundays have a particularly solitary quality. It might be because I'm an early riser, and when I'm padding around the neighbourhood with whichever dog happens to be in my life this week, thinking about coffee, and trying to guess how the weather will unfold, there is never anyone else around.Not [...]

I don't need to have a functioning brain to understand what's going on. Sometimes, things are clear enough that a person who is only functioning with the heart can sort it all out.People, it's important to take your cues off those around you, and respond accordingly, remembering always that we [...]