Monthly Archives: January 2011

Sex is… what now exactly?

In my program we get asked to define ‘sex’ on a pretty regular basis. It’s not an easy word to define. Really, we’ve chosen three letters to represent a huge wide ever expanding list of actions, feelings, instincts and observable phenomena. Orgasm? Ejaculation? Penetration? Identification? Stimulation? Infatuation with a particular body part? Reproduction? Seduction? Consent? [...]

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Imperfection

I’m in love with imperfection. Like, deep-down, unruly, hot-flash inducing, love. I love how imperfect you are. No really, it’s true. Well, technically, it’s truth that I am in love with, and I love imperfection because it is an expression of truth. The truth is imperfect. And, I’m telling you, that get’s my juices flowing. [...]

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My Mama and MLK, Jr.

Yesterday was MLK, Jr Day and today is my mom’s birthday and the significance of those two days are twisting around each other in my mind. They days have always been close to each other, and my mom is from Alabama, so there is some strange associations between the slain civil rights minister and my [...]

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Choose your own adventure; Last Day of My First Semester of Grad School.

Our character is a 32 year old single mother of 2 elementary school aged children on the last day of her first semester of graduate school. She has many goals to meet on this day and very many ways to not accomplish any of them. Let’s begin: You wake up at 6:45am after having slept [...]

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Helllloooo 2011

I skipped writing about the Winter Solstice. That’s kinda significant. The event itself was kinda significant. Not only was it the longest night of the year, it was the Gemini Full Moon (aka my full moon) and a complete eclipse of said moon. That is a lot of significance. So maybe I was too busy [...]

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