How awful it must be to lose your virginity when you were born blind. I mean, when you can see, you at least know what you're dealing with - you've probably seen pictures, maybe you've even seen porn - you at least know what a penis or a vagina looks like. But if you're blind, I imagine it would be like "What the hell is this?" If you're a girl ( Read more... )

Right. So this happened a couple of weeks ago, but I haven't been ready to write about it ( Read more... )

So I'm walking to work this morning, like I do every morning. My route takes me past Monroe Middle School (now Monroe High School) and then through the back of the Preferred Care parking lot past School Without Walls ( Read more... )

Nothing like coming home from work and your downstairs neighbor goes "Hey, what's your name again?"

I tell him.

"Nevermind, I don't want to worry you."

I don't know what you were going to say, but I'm worried now.

Last night I had three dreams. They were interconnected, but separate (because I tend to wake up a lot at night ( Read more... )

I recognize that the world is not a perfect place. I know that people make mistakes. But there has to come a time when you need to realize that you just did something unusually dumb ( Read more... )

Oh dear ( Read more... )

Names, names, what's in a name? How much does a name really define us? How much of anyone's identity wraps itself up in their name? Or the labels they apply to themselves? How does changing the word change the person? It can if you let it, but it doesn't change the fundamental core of anyone. At least, I would think that it wouldn't. But I've never ( Read more... )

I almost choked on my multivitamin this morning.

I survived (obviously).

I do not want to be the girl who died by choking on a multivitamin. All irony aside, it would not be a good way to be remembered.

Holy ( Read more... )